Operation Red Jericho: The Guild Specialists Book 1

by Joshua Mowll (Illustrator: Niroot Puttapipat) (Illustrator: Julek Heller) (Illustrator: Benjamin Mowll)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Candlewick (2005-08-09)
ISBN: 0763626341
EAN: 9780763626341
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 288 pages
Edition: Har/Map
Release Date: 2005-08-09
SKU: 090503001
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: This copy states First US Edition 2005, First Printing with full numberline which is in good condition. First Page has 2 words underlined and one word circled. Otherwise, No other visible markings, highlights, underlining, tears to text. Tight spine. Copy has light redish stains, which came from Hard Cover, slightly seeping on a few top pages and inside front/back cover. No Dust Jacket. Bottom of Front Hard Cover has a sticker with a Ref. No. written. Back Cover has a light water mark. Light/minimum, shelf/edge wear. Great reading copy, worth having at an affordable price. (L7-30)

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Product Description
A sister and brother's search for their missing parents uncovers a mysterious secret society in an action-filled sea-and-land saga centered in 1920s Shanghai.

For Joshua Mowll, it was the surprise of a lifetime. There, among the archives inherited from his great-aunt Rebecca MacKenzie, was a 1920s journal recounting the thrilling and dangerous adventures of fifteen-year-old Rebecca and her younger brother, Doug, in the wake of their parents' mysterious disappearance in the deserts of China. Now carefully re-created in a lavish volume — complete with cloth binding and a journal-style elastic clasp — the siblings' tale begins aboard the Expedient, their uncle's enigmatic research ship, and moves at a breathless pace through the streets of Shanghai and on to a terrifying island fortress. Along the way, Doug and Becca encounter an ancient order of Chinese mercenaries, a brutal pirate warlord, a feisty Texan heiress, and a stolen cache of a volatile explosive called zoridium. By their saga's end, the intrepid duo has exposed a murderous plot involving their parents and uncovered a high-minded secret society hidden from the world for hundreds of years. Interspersed are such "archival" elements as:

— elaborate diagrams and maps
— vintage photos and illustrations
— documents with stamps, seals, and watermarks
— four full-color gatefolds, the largest a six-page foldout
— extensive appendices and notes

Painstakingly researched and packed with authentic detail, OPERATION RED JERICHO is the first of three nonstop-action tales of intrigue by first-time author Joshua Mowll — historical fiction at its finest.

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