Operation Red Jericho

Operation Red Jericho is the first volume of the " Guild of Specialists Chronicle " of the author Joshua Mowll. It is about the siblings Doug and Rebecca MacKenzie, who go on board the ship " clerk " in the search for their missing parents in China and unwittingly fall into an adventure. The book has 273 pages and numerous folding side images.

Publication history

The fantasy / adventure book Operation Red Jericho appeared on 9 August 2005 at Walker Books Limited, the German edition followed in 2008 in Cecilie Dressler Verlag. The book received several awards, such as in January 2006, the " Red Poppy Award for Innovation in Children's Books " by the British Book Trade Awards. The sequel followed in 2006 with "Operation Typhoon" ( original title: Operation Typhoon Shore, German edition 2009) and in 2008 with "Operation Storm City" ( German edition 2010)

Action

England 2002: Joshua Mowll inherits the archive of his aunt Rebecca MacKenzie. There he finds a lot of interesting documents that put him on the trail of an ancient secret society, whose knowledge is for all of humanity is of great importance. Shanghai 1920: The siblings Doug and Rebecca MacKenzie miss their parents, who got lost for a year in western China. Since they can no longer stay with her ​​aunt Margaret, they travel to their uncle Captain Fitzroy MacKenzie. From now on, they live on his research vessel, the shipping clerk. The crew of the clerk sets out to search for a wreck in which a potentially explosive and very rare substance called " Zoridium " or " daughter of the sun " is because the ship had been sunk with this same fabric. For Zoridiumtorpedos are enough tiny amounts Zoridiums, an invented by the inventor Luc Chambois device, the "Inter molecular booster " when used. The dreaded pirate Cheng -Fat has just such torpedoes. He built it by abusing the knowledge of the scientist Zorid who had to work as a prisoner for him. Now Cheng -Fat makes the torpedoes the seas unsafe. Doug and Rebecca, meanwhile, have many questions to which gives them the captain no answers. Therefore, they begin to forage on the ship and find documents and books that they bring (how long time later the author of the book) on the trail of a secret society called " Honourable Guild of Specialists (HGS ) ". You will also find out that the company has something to do with the disappearance of their parents and get so unexpectedly in an incredible adventure.

About the Author

Joshua Mowll was born in 1970 in England. At eight, he was sent to a boarding school. "It was ," he said, " a gloomy old box on a secluded hill on the border of Wales and there was every morning porridge for breakfast. I felt like in 1878. " His family moved to Kent, where he spent the rest of his school years. Later, he studied graphic design at Canterbury and Ipswich. He then worked for several newspapers, since 1994 as a graphic designer for the Mail on Sunday. Today Joshua Mowll lives in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Awards

  • 7/2008 The Painted Dog leaderboard
  • 1/2006 Poppy Red Award for Innovation in Children's Books
  • 9/2005 "Sunday Times" Children's Book of the Week

In the Press

  • " The Da Vinci Code for young readers " ~ Books ~ Quarterly
  • " Only for strong nerves reader " ~ ~ New Press
  • " Packed with action " ~ Darmstadt Echo ~
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