Operation Red Jericho
Operation Red Jericho is the first volume in the "Guild of Specialists Chronicle" by author Joshua Mowll. It is about the siblings Douglas and Rebecca MacKenzie, who set out on board the ship "Expedient" in search of their parents missing in China and suddenly get into an adventure. The book has 273 pages and numerous fold-out pictures.
Publication history
The fantasy / adventure - book Operation Red Jericho appeared on 9 August 2005 by Walker Books Limited, the German edition followed in 2008 in Cecilie Dressler Verlag . The book received several awards, e.g. B. in January 2006 the "Poppy Red Award for Innovation in Children's Books" from the British Book Trade Awards. The sequel followed in 2006 with "Operation Taifun" (original title: Operation Typhoon Shore, German edition 2009) and in 2008 with "Operation Storm City" (German edition 2010)
action
England 2002: Joshua Mowll inherits his aunt Rebecca MacKenzie's archives. There he finds many interesting documents that put him on the trail of an ancient secret society , whose knowledge is of great importance for all of humanity. Shanghai 1920: The siblings Doug and Rebecca MacKenzie miss their parents, who have been missing in western China for a year . Since they can no longer stay with their aunt Margaret, they travel to their uncle, Captain Fitzroy MacKenzie. From now on they live on his research ship, the travel agent. The crew of the travel agent goes in search of a wreck which may contain a very explosive and rare substance called "Zoridium" or "Daughter of the Sun", as the ship was sunk with this very substance. For zoridium torpedoes, tiny amounts of zoridium are sufficient if one uses a device invented by the inventor Luc Chambois, the "intermolecular force amplifier". The dreaded pirate Cheng-Fat owns such torpedoes. He built them by misusing the knowledge of the scientist Zorid, who had to work for him as a prisoner. Now Cheng-Fat is making the seas unsafe with the torpedoes. Meanwhile, Doug and Rebecca have many questions that the captain does not answer. So they start looking around on the ship and find documents and books that bring them (like the author of the book a long time later) on the trail of a secret society called the Honorable Guild of Specialists (HGS). They also find out that society has something to do with the disappearance of their parents and thus suddenly find themselves on an incredible adventure.
About the author
Joshua Mowll was born in England in 1970 . When he was eight he was sent to boarding school. "It was," he said, "a gloomy old box on a lonely hill on the border of Wales and there was porridge for breakfast every morning . I felt like I was in 1878." His family moved to Kent where he spent the remainder of his school years. He later studied graphic design in Canterbury and Ipswich . He then worked for various 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 colorful best dog list
- 1/2006 Poppy Red Award for Innovation in Children's Books
- 9/2005 "Sunday Times" Children's Book of the Week
Press reviews
- "The Da Vinci Code for Young Readers" ~ Books Quaterly ~
- "For readers with strong nerves only" ~ Neue Presse ~
- "Packed full of action" ~ Darmstädter Echo ~
literature
- Joshua Mowll, translated by Peter Knecht: Operation Red Jericho Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7915-1360-7
- Joshua Mowll, translated by Peter Knecht: Operation Taifun Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7915-1361-4
- Joshua Mowll, translated by Peter Knecht: Operation Storm City Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7915-1362-1