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Country Australia Publisher Hardie Grant/Egmont Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 1 June 2009 Page count 295 Followed by Phoenix Files #2: Contact | 4/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date June 1, 2009 Pages 295 Series The Phoenix Files | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Young adult fiction, Science Fiction Similar Chris Morphew books, The Phoenix Files books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Phoenix Files: Arrival is a Science fiction/young adult/adventure written by Australian author Chris Morphew. It was first released in Australia on June 1, 2009. In Arrival, 15-year-old Luke Hunter and his mother Emily move to Phoenix, a town no one has heard of with no cars, no phones and no internet. He soon discovers the Shackleton Cooperative, the cooperative running town are plotting to end the world in 100 days.
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Plot
Luke Hunter moves with his mother, Emily, to Phoenix, are greeted by Aaron Ketterley and Bruce Calvin and escorted to their new house. Luke discovers there is no phone or internet reception and bicycles are the main mode of transportion.
The next morning, Luke is taken to his new school, given a laptop and introduced to Peter Weir, who Luke soon befriends. Peter shows Luke to his locker. The order of the lockers is done by the order of arrival of students, his being the last. In their first class of the day, Luke is introduced to Mike, Cat and Tank who were Peter's old friends and Jordan, the last person to move to Phoenix.
When Luke gets home, he finds a USB flash drive inside with the initials 'JB' etched onto it. He opens it on his new laptop and sees a random code of letters. There is only one suspect he can think of with those initials: Jordan Burke. Luke is viciously confronted by Jordan who was also given a USB with the initials 'LH' etched onto it. Peter suspects the number combinations from both USBs are a two parts of a bigger file. The next day before school, Luke and Jordan watch a recorded message of Ketterley and Calvin discussing the Cooperative's plot to wipe out the world outside of Phoenix in 100 days' time with an unknown called "Tabitha".
They go to Jordan's house and she discusses with them that she is pregnant. They go on a biking trip to the X's on Crazy Bill's map and to the nearest town so they can call their parents. The next morning, Crazy Bill comes and bashes Luke up. He wakes up in the medical center by Dr Montag, the town's doctor, and Calvin informs him Bill has been arrested. Jordan, Luke and Peter find a warehouse of the town's supplies and see an issue of Time magazine dated for next July with Shackleton on the cover. They find a three story-high, two-meter thick concrete wall that surrounds Phoenix. They climb over and see the land is a baron wasteland. Reeve finds them and taken back to town to be interviewed by Calvin, Reeve says they were lost. Crazy Bill escapes the security center. The next day Luke, Peter and Jordan hear a phone ringing in the town square.
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Publication history
Arrival was released in Australia on June 1, 2009 and in the UK on July 5, 2011, and in the United States in 2012.