Mike lives in an ordinary house in a small country Austalian town. The only thing that is unusual is he lives next door to Lance nicknamed Looser. Looser is always trying to fit in but never quite making it. He is the potential bully or the one to be bullied. He tells Mike that he has got a test tube from a mansion taken over by foreign interests. He says the test tube has the power to kill. This ordinary Friday in class he is pushed too far and he threatens breaking the test tube. Unfortunately, this is what happens and as Looser runs away the teacher and some of the students fall violently ill. Mike has got to work out what to do in the classroon and how he is going to track down Looser to get to the bottom of the mystery. An easy read that perhaps could have read even more excitingly given the main ideas ( )