World Champions! A Max Einstein Adventure

The cover of "World Champions! A Max Einstein Adventure".

*"Running out of time? World champions don't just run faster...they run better, smarter, stronger, NOW."*
— Back cover description

**World Champions! A Max Einstein Adventure** is the 4th book of the Max Einstein series written by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein, published by Little, Brown on August 5, 2021 and released on Amazon on August 9, 2021.

## Description

**World Champions...**

Get outdoors from racing across glaciers in Greenland and flying in a super-fancy solar-powered jet to Hawaii, to visiting the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia and hanging out with a robot named Leo, twelve-year-old genius Max and her friends live for adventure.

Take action whenever there's a problem to solve, the kids work better together. So does an evil group of the rich and powerful who will do whatever it takes to split the kids up — even as the planet is changing before their eyes.

Never give up — Max has one more surprise in her playbook and if she's going to pull it off, she needs the team around her. Who ever said that kids can't save the world?

## Plot

### Part One: Running out of Time

#### Chapter One

Max Einstein and Siobhan McKenna being in Greenland racing across glaciers wishing that she had worn something more suitable for the climate there, wishing she could run faster without her backpack, being chased by an angry crew of mysterious mercenaries.

What made it worse was that the ice was rapidly melting beneath their feet, creating snaking rivulets of turquoise blue water that widened into streams slicing through the ice and made gaping holes that ended up as gushing waterfalls. The frozen tundra was melting.

Siobhan, Max's friend and colleague, a twelve-year-old genius geoscientist, shouted to Max that they had not much time left. Max realized that her friend with fiery red hair could be talking about the earth or their current predicament, as both were true.

They had been examining the Jakobshavn Glacier on the west coast of Greenland because global warming was causing its ice to disappear at alarming rates. It was turning the once-solid Greenland Ice Sheet into a melting slab of "leaky Swiss cheese". Benjamin Franklin Abercrombie, the billionaire funder of the CMI, had sent Max and her friend Siobhan to the glaciers to research the team's next big assignment: turning around the world's climate crisis.

Siobhan could have also been talking about the mysterious team of thugs in white camouflage uniforms that "made them look like Darth Vader's stormtroopers" that were pursuing the duo on sleek, glistening white gas-powered snowmobiles with skids with rifles that could churn across the slippery surface much better than the soles of Max and Siobhan's hiking boots.

Siobhan suggested losing the backpacks, stating that they were slowing them down. Max rejected this idea, but suggested that they rip out the zipper as she whipped out a Swiss Army knife and gave one end to Siobhan, suggesting that they tie these around their feet, comparing them to cleats or snow chains. It made the running easier with more friction. However, the goons on the snowmobiles were gaining on them. Max wishes that Mr. Abercrombie had not terminated the CMI's security detail, Charl and Isabl, as he thought that the team didn't need armed guards anymore since the evil Corp was currently out of business.

Siobhan expressed anger and confusion to why they were being chased, stating that she thought the Corp was over and done for. Max didn't answer, but she thought that it was a lot of people, since they had chosen to deal with global warming.