The Spy and the Atom Gun

✍ Scribed by Seth, Ronald

• Book ID: 107092620
• Publisher: Ariel Books
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 67 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

In Gallonia, a small European country behind the Iron Curtain, scientists have developed a secret weapon: an atomic gun light enough to be carried in one hand, but capable of annihilating a tank with a single blast. Through Gallonia's resistance movement plans are made to transmit knowledge of the gun to the Western world. The Spy and the Atom Gun is the hard-hitting, first-hand account of the adventures of a British agent who manages to sneak into the country and smuggle out the gun.

Written by a former counterspy and the author of several books for boys, The Spy and the Atom Gun is a regular full-blooded spy story, complete with secret code words, false identities, sliding panels, tense interrogations, hairbreadth escapes through underground passageways, and a terrifying villain - Gombroch, gargoyle-faced head of the secret police; yet it takes place in a realistic modern setting and has political reference which makes the story especially meaningful today. Young readers will be particularly impressed by the courageious part played in the resistance by a couple of unusual fifteen-year-old boys, upon whose wit and daring the success of the entire mission depends.