Conville & Walsh Ltd

OPERATION TYPHOON SHORE
The Guild Trilogy – Book Two
Joshua Mowll
Conville & Walsh Ltd
Fiction
Praise for OPERATION RED JERICHO: The Guild Trilogy – Book One
A ripping yarn, artfully told with amazing maps and designs
– MAIL ON SUNDAY
Mowll’s genius is in his clever use of mixing old and new storytelling devices in a story that should appeal to both
boys and girls
– SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
Captain MacKenzie and the crew of the Honourable Guild of Specialist’s research ship Expedient battle
through a savage storm in pursuit of their sworn enemy Julius Pembleton-Crozier who is hard at work
excavating on an archipelago in the Celebes Sea, east of Borneo. Our heroes, Rebecca and Douglas
MacKenzie, are still aboard and hell-bent on uncovering the fate of their parents, explorers lost in the
desert wastes of eastern China. This archipelago lies at the heart of the mystery and reveals clues to
the past of both the Guild and the Sujing Quantou, the Chinese fighting order allied to the captain.
As Becca and Doug uncover vital information about their parents’ missing expedition, they encounter
vast tunneling machines, seaplanes, a Greek trireme, volcanoes and a terrifying generator based on
the design of the enigmatic ‘gyrolabe’ seen in Book One. With the Expedient stranded and in need of
urgent repairs, it is a shock for the captain to discover that Pembleton-Crozier is in league with the
Kalaxx, the miscreant northern chapter of the Sujing, shunned by their brotherhood after the bloody
internecine war of AD 1720. The islands are the ancient source of the potent element zoridium which
the Kalaxx are intent on using to power a new scientific dawn for mankind. Zoridium is the ancient
secret both the Guild and the Sujing Quantou have sworn to protect and guard from the world, such is
its terrifying potential for both good and evil…
Resplendent with plans, cutaway drawings, photographs and artefacts, this book builds on the
foundations laid down in OPERATION RED JERICHO, the first part of The Guild Trilogy.
Joshua Mowll began his career as a graphic artist for the Mail on Sunday in 1994. Since then he has
illustrated and drawn everything from space flights, medical procedures and aircraft crashes to ancient
pyramid theories, invasions, SAS assaults and laser-guided weaponry. The sequel to TYPHOON SHORE
will be STORM CITY, to be published in autumn 2007.
UK Publisher Walker Books
US Publisher Candlewick
UK Publication 2 October 2006
Status Manuscript
Length 280 pages (with illustrations)
Agent CBC
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World rights: Walker Books. For further information please contact Véronique Kirchhoff:
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For film rights contact Bob Bookman or Richard Green at Creative Artists Agency (tel: +1 310 288 4545)
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