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The Forbidden City
- Author
- John McNally
- Narrator
- Sean Ohlendorf
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 3 September 2015
- Run Time
- 9 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
What to expect
Get shrunk! Humour and high-stakes combine in the action-packed Infinity Drake series. A BIG adventure with a tiny hero!
Infinity Drake – Finn for short – is STILL only 9mm tall. But before his crazy scientist uncle can figure out a way to return him to his normal size, a new threat emerges on the other side of the world.
Supreme villain, Kaparis, plans to release an army of self-replicating nano-bots – a hardware virus that will give him total control of global communications.
Finn and his gang of bullet-sized heroes find themselves on a deadly mission: to stop the bot infection before it conquers mankind…
Nano-bots: prepare to be cut down to size.
Critics Review
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“Full of ‘boom’, ‘screech’ and ‘wham’, this delightful series could be described as The Borrowers meets Andy McNab meets Roy Lichtenstein.” Telegraph
Praise for Infinity Drake: The Sons of Scarlatti:
“Funny, thrilling, brain-punchingly good.” Derek Landy
"Anyone who loves science and adventure would love this book, it has a great mix of complication and humor." Tilly, Lovereading4Kids
"This was a fantastic book because it was jam packed with lots of action and adventure. As well as being an exciting read it also made me laugh out loud." Alice, Lovereading4Kids
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Details
- Author
- John McNally
- Narrator
- Sean Ohlendorf
- Duration
- 9 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 September 2015
- ISBN
- 9780007583478
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Science fiction
Synopsis
Get shrunk! Humour and high-stakes combine in the action-packed Infinity Drake series. A BIG adventure with a tiny hero! Infinity Drake – Finn for short – is STILL only 9mm tall. But before his crazy scientist uncle can figure out a way to return him to his normal size, a new threat emerges on the other side of the world. Supreme villain, Kaparis, plans to release an army of self-replicating nano-bots – a hardware virus that will give him total control of global communications. Finn and his gang of bullet-sized heroes find themselves on a deadly mission: to stop the bot infection before it conquers mankind… Nano-bots: prepare to be cut down to size.
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