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Authors: Anthony Read
Shanghai 1920:
while on board the
Expedient
, Doug and Becca MacKenzie anxiously await news of their missing parents … and stumble across a far greater mystery.
England 2002:
Joshua Mowll inherits a remarkable archive of documents and painstakingly pieces together the extraordinary events that took place over eighty years earlier.
This is the story of a mysterious Guild striving to protect an ancient secret; the story of two young people caught up in an astonishing adventure … with far-reaching consequences for the whole world.
Operation Red Jericho.
No ordinary tale: no ordinary book
.
A
NTHONY
R
EAD
studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and was an actor-manager at the age of eighteen. He worked in advertising, journalism and publishing and as a BAFTA-winning television producer before becoming a full-time writer. Anthony has more than two hundred screen credits to his name, for programmes that include
Sherlock Holmes
,
The Professionals
and
Doctor Who
. He has also written non-fiction, and won the Wingate Literary Prize for
Kristallnacht
.
The seven Baker Street Boys books are based on Anthony’s original television series for children, broadcast by the BBC in the 1980s, for which he won the Writers’ Guild TV Award. The series was inspired by references to the “Baker Street Irregulars”, a group of young crime-solvers who helped the detective Sherlock Holmes in the classic stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or, if real, used fictitiously.
First published 2012 by Walker Books Ltd
87 Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5HJ
Text © 2012 Anthony Read
Illustrations © 2012 David Frankland
The right of Anthony Read and David Frankland to be identified as author and illustrator respectively of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
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ISBN 978-1-4063-4242-0 (ePub)