Empire of Ruins: The Hunchback Assignments 3 - Hardcover

Slade, Arthur

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385737866 ISBN 13: 9780385737869

Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books, 2011

Synopsis

Secret agent Modo's next assignment? Find ancient Egyptian ruins hidden deep in the Australian jungle and the mysterious God Face, rumoured to be a powerful weapon—anyone who looks upon it will be driven mad. And he must find the God Face before the evil Clockwork Guild does!

About this title

About the Author:

ARTHUR SLADE has published several novels for young readers, including The Hunchback Assignments; Dark Deeps: The Hunchback Assignments 2; Jolted: Newton Starker's Rules for Survival; Megiddo's Shadow; Tribes; and Dust, which won the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with his wife, Brenda Baker, and their daughter. Visit him on the Web at ArthurSlade.com.

From Booklist:

Slade’s steampunk espionage series, the Hunchback Assignments, continues. In this episode the Permanent Society travels to Australia in search of an ancient Egyptian artifact that has driven earlier seekers mad. As Modo continues his daring stunts while also maintaining his shape-shifting, he longs for Octavia to think more romantically of him than he believes his true and deformed face could ever permit. Slade does a fine job of applying an ethical gloss on Victorian Britain’s stripping of native artifacts without derailing the pace or mood of the story. The cliffhanger ending is a satisfying promise of more adventures to come. Grades 7-10. --Francisca Goldsmith

About this edition

• Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0385737866
• ISBN 13: 9780385737869
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304