Cirrus@Austlit

'Meet Kirby MacLeod, fourteen years old and a magnet for trouble. She's on a mission to to earn her independence – and a whole heap of money – before she leaves high school. She knows how, she knows where. She just has to figure out how to do it before someone else beats her to it.

'The Great Southern Pacific Express is one of Australia's few remaining trains to avoid tagging by graffiti artists. And it's sitting in Kirby's town that night, parked in a train stabling area. Underground magazines have placed a bounty of nearly half a million dollars on its hide for the tagger who can prove they got to it first.

'Kirby thinks she has a plan that will win her the bounty and still leave the train in pristine condition. But first she has to get past the guards, the dogs, the barbed wire and the high-tech security cameras – not to mention any real graffiti vandals who might be after the bounty too.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Nobody blackmails Kirby MacLeod . . . and gets away with it.

'You've just earned half a million dollars. You've outwitted police, search parties and graffiti vandals to do it. Now all you want is to get back to school and back to your normal life. But when your name is Kirby MacLeod, there's no such thing as "normal".

'Hot on the heels of their last mission, Kirby, Scott and Dee find themselves stalked through schoolyards, horse paddocks and cyberspace by a dangerous opponent who will stop at nothing to get his hands on their money - not even poison and blackmail. And when someone in Kirby's team starts plotting to betray her, Kirby must put Rule 1 of Success to the test: Protect your assets. Enemies can be anywhere.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.