The Alternate Universe

Book excerpt: It's an average day in an average suburb. In an alternate universe. Claude thinks his biggest problem is trying to impress his new boyfriend when a much bigger problem comes along: his father vanishes. Not only that, several clues suggest that his dad may have invented a time machine. In search of answers-and his father-Claude and his best friend Carolien must decipher a series of coded messages, stay a step ahead of the world's most powerful corporation, and confront one of the darkest episodes in human history. But they are quickly running out of time.