Operation Storm City - Softcover

Joshua Mowll

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ISBN 10: 1406311324 ISBN 13: 9781406311327

Publisher: Walker Childrens Paperbacks, 2009

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About the Author:

Joshua Mowll studied at art school before working as a graphic artist for newspapers. He has worked for The Mail on Sunday since 1994, illustrating everything from maps, diagrams and space flights to medical procedures and aircraft crashes. He is the author of Operation Red Jericho (9781406305463), and Operation Tyhoon Shore (9781406305463) which make up the Guild Trilogy. He lives in London.

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Grade 5–10—Fearing for the safety of their British cartographer parents who have been searching for the fabled lost city of Ur-Can, Doug and Becca MacKenzie railroad their chaperone into going on a perilous mission to find them. Armed with research papers found in their parents' study, and accompanied by a pet Bengal tiger, the teens leave their home in India for the deserts of Sinkiang, China. This third book about the Honourable Guild of Specialists, a secret group of scientists and explorers, revolves around four gyrolabes that contain Tembla symbols that, when put together, reveal the whereabouts of Ur-Can. Knowing their parents may be the only ones able to decipher the code, the siblings have a race against time and a Russian bad guy who is certain to use the lost city for evil purposes. Returning to this installment is Julius Pembleton-Crozier (former Specialist and good guy gone bad) and Liberty da Vine, the MacKenzies' American pilot-chaperone who channels Amelia Earhart with her daredevil moxie. Historical fact and fantasy intertwine as technological marvels of the 1920s, such as the hydrogen-filled gondola and the Vickers Vimy fighter plane, are detailed in wonderfully illustrated gatefolds. These factual elements, which include a map of Sumatra's Toba volcano eruption, sidebars about such things as mustard gas, and illustrations of Cossack flamethrowers, make the hard-to-swallow elements about secret societies, codes, and technologies entirely believable. A great romp for history and mystery fans.—Vicki Reutter, Cazenovia High School, NY
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