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ISBN |
9780333294529 |
Released NZ |
1 Mar 1981 |
Publisher |
Macmillan Education |
Format |
Hardback, New edition |
Alternate Format(s) |
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Series |
M-Books |
Availability |
Out of print
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Full details for this title
Interest Age |
13+ years |
Reading Age |
13+ years |
NBS Text |
School Textbooks & Study Guides: Literature, Arts & Humanities |
ONIX Text |
Primary and secondary/elementary and high school;College/higher education |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
US Review |
A competent, free-form little chiller that pedals you into the implausible before you can say Cheese it! the Mafia! - a Mafia whose sinister masterminds, along with the CIA, can fracture a young boy's life. Fourteen-year-old Adam is biking furiously from Massachusetts to Vermont to see his father. Yet distance and time seem oddly muddled as Adam's head buzzes with family memories and - like tape recordings - those interrogations by a doctor (?) about Adam's childhood. He can remember a time when he and his parents were happy and close, but, after that frantic exodus in the night, when Adam was a tot, things were never the same. It is not until Adam is a teen-ager that he discovers the reason for: Father's grim visitations from a Mr. Grey, Mother's Thursday phone call, and his own double identity. The denouement seals the accelerating dread, with recollections of gentle domesticity and even some high school humor adding a mite more candle power to light this bike-ride through a twilight zone. (Kirkus Reviews) |
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