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Humour and high adventure combine in the biggest action debut in years – even if its characters are very small.Infinity Drake (Finn) is with his scientist uncle when they are summoned to a crisis meeting. A power-mad villain has released a lethal bio-weapon – mutant wasps with a deadly sting.Millions of lives are in danger, but Uncle Al has a crazy plan that just might work… Soon he’s shrinking a crack military team to take down the wasps. But a double agent throws the mission and now Finn is 9mm tall and has the weight of the world’s survival on his tiny shoulders.Killer wasps: It’s time to pick on someone your own size!

Get shrunk! Humour and high-stakes combine in the action-packed Infinity Drake series. A BIG adventure with a tiny hero…Infinity Drake and his scientist uncle are summoned to a crisis meeting. A power-mad villain has released a doomsday bio-weapon – the mutant Scarlatti wasp.Millions of lives are in danger, but Uncle Al has a crazy plan that just might work… Soon he’s shrinking a crack military team to take down the wasps. But a double agent throws the mission and now Finn is 9mm tall and has the weight of the world’s survival on his tiny shoulders.Killer bugs: It’s time to pick on someone your own size!

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.

Get shrunk! Humour and high-stakes combine in the conclusion to the action-packed Infinity Drake series. A BIG adventure with a tiny hero!And you thought 9mm was small?Infinity Drake takes it to a whole 'nother level…After months of captivity Finn and Carla reach their final destination; evil mastermind Kaparis's secret lair in the Carpathian mountains.Once there Finn learns the villain's true purpose – to conquer his paralysis and rise again. To do so Kaparis must shrink a team of medics down to microscopic size to repair his damaged spine, and now he's cracked the Boldklub code it seems nothing can stop him.Apart, that is, from a microscopic hero…Join Infinity Drake on his wildest ride yet – deep inside the body of his nemesis, where he must fight for his life… and bring down the giant once and for all.

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.

Get shrunk! Humour and high-stakes combine in the conclusion to the action-packed Infinity Drake series. A BIG adventure with a tiny hero!And you thought 9mm was small?Infinity Drake takes it to a whole ''nother level…After months of captivity Finn and Carla reach their final destination; evil mastermind Kaparis''s secret lair in the Carpathian mountains.Once there Finn learns the villain''s true purpose – to conquer his paralysis and rise again. To do so Kaparis must shrink a team of medics down to microscopic size to repair his damaged spine, and now he''s cracked the Boldklub code it seems nothing can stop him.Apart, that is, from a microscopic hero…Join Infinity Drake on his wildest ride yet – deep inside the body of his nemesis, where he must fight for his life… and bring down the giant once and for all.

Get shrunk! Humour and high-stakes combine in the action-packed Infinity Drake series. A BIG adventure with a tiny hero…Infinity Drake and his scientist uncle are summoned to a crisis meeting. A power-mad villain has released a doomsday bio-weapon – the mutant Scarlatti wasp.Millions of lives are in danger, but Uncle Al has a crazy plan that just might work… Soon he’s shrinking a crack military team to take down the wasps. But a double agent throws the mission and now Finn is 9mm tall and has the weight of the world’s survival on his tiny shoulders.Killer bugs: It’s time to pick on someone your own size!

Sam Heggarty returns home to hunt for the gunmen who robbed and executed his father. As he makes his way back, he witnesses another murder and stumbles across a clue to the people responsible for his father's death. Sam becomes caught up in the chase to track down an escaped prisoner as he partners up with ageing lawman, County Sheriff Lewis Leeming. He discovers that the one person who may hold the key to the identity of his father's murderers is someone that everyone else is intent on killing. Heggarty will have to save the life of a man involved in his father's death.

America''s Report Card offers a brilliant vision of contemporary American life that is frightening, darkly hilarious, and tinged with satire. John McNally tells the story of two unlucky people who forge an improbable yet possibly life-saving connection in a world overshadowed by the Patriot Act and No Child Left Behind -- a world in which hulking government bureaucracies and vast corporations join forces to numb the populace into apathy with various standardization and surveillance programs. But McNally sees hope in the daily experiences of his characters: sometimes, haphazardly, by going about their own very particular lives, people circumvent the official program and begin to actively claim lives of freedom and dignity. America''s Report Card is an arresting and humane portrait of life taking place in the margins, outside the stunted imagination of government and media. As in his critically acclaimed novel The Book of Ralph, McNally dazzles with characters like Jainey O''Sullivan -- a lonely, confused, purple-and-green-haired sometime truant, Jainey cares so little about high school that on her final standardized test, she writes an essay heaping scorn on the test administrators even as she asks her faceless reader for help. Charlie Wolf leads a fairy-tale graduate student life, with just enough money and clout to keep him in books, vodka, a threadbare apartment, and a beautiful, intellectual girlfriend. But the bohemian dream starts to crumble when Charlie takes a job scoring standardized tests and finds himself surrounded by people who are either plodding blindly along or caught up in wild conspiracy theories. When Charlie and Jainey stumble upon one another, they also stumble upon their own bravery and compassion. They try to protect each other from their habitual bad luck and the shadowy threats lurking at the edges of their lives, and what ensues doesn''t follow any prescribed course. The official version of American life today may get the broad strokes and primary colors right, but America''s Report Card reveals how the government and the media overlook the corners and shadows where our individual realities unfold all too often in chaotic, precarious, and bewildering ways. This wholly original, wildly entertaining novel mirrors our part in the dark but frequently redemptive comedy that is life.

For Anyone Who's Ever Been a Teenager Who's teenage years weren't terrible? Remember the scary older kids? The sadistic gym teacher? The smelly kid who sat next to you in science class? Your first fumbling kiss? That time you threw up in the cafeteria? Your first attempt at putting on a condom? The period that arrived unexpectedly? That awful fight with your parents? The first time you got drunk? That note you wrote that you shouldn't have written? The day you forgot to zip your fly? That monster zit? When, you wondered, would it all end? In When I Was a Loser, John McNally, author of the novel America's Report Card, assembles twenty-five original essays--often hilarious, sometimes tenderhearted, always evocative--about defining moments of high school loserdom. Brad Land, Julianna Baggott, Owen King, Johanna Edwards, and many more fresh, talented writers explore their own angst, humiliation, heartache, and other staples of teen life. These essays perfectly capture what it was like to be in high school: to experience so many things for the first time, to assert independence while desperately trying to fit in, to feel misunderstood and unable to articulate the wild swings between heartbreak, anger, and euphoria. One writer recalls how his grandmother helped him with his home perm in preparation for the Senior Class picture; another recounts her discovery, sometime after hitting puberty, of the power she held over boys and men, while at the same time she felt herself at their mercy; a third remembers the casual cruelties visited on him by the cooler kids, and the cruelties he, in turn, inflicted on kids below him on the social ladder. Utterly candid and compulsively readable, these essays conjure up and untangle those raw and formative years. The writers cringe and laugh at the teenagers they were, but at the same time, they honor their adolescence and the way it shaped their lives. Because, in truth, beneath the layers of adult respectability, we all still carry a little bit of our teenage selves around with us.

For Anyone Who''s Ever Been a Teenager Who''s teenage years weren''t terrible? Remember the scary older kids? The sadistic gym teacher? The smelly kid who sat next to you in science class? Your first fumbling kiss? That time you threw up in the cafeteria? Your first attempt at putting on a condom? The period that arrived unexpectedly? That awful fight with your parents? The first time you got drunk? That note you wrote that you shouldn''t have written? The day you forgot to zip your fly? That monster zit? When, you wondered, would it all end? In When I Was a Loser, John McNally, author of the novel America''s Report Card, assembles twenty-five original essays--often hilarious, sometimes tenderhearted, always evocative--about defining moments of high school loserdom. Brad Land, Julianna Baggott, Owen King, Johanna Edwards, and many more fresh, talented writers explore their own angst, humiliation, heartache, and other staples of teen life. These essays perfectly capture what it was like to be in high school: to experience so many things for the first time, to assert independence while desperately trying to fit in, to feel misunderstood and unable to articulate the wild swings between heartbreak, anger, and euphoria. One writer recalls how his grandmother helped him with his home perm in preparation for the Senior Class picture; another recounts her discovery, sometime after hitting puberty, of the power she held over boys and men, while at the same time she felt herself at their mercy; a third remembers the casual cruelties visited on him by the cooler kids, and the cruelties he, in turn, inflicted on kids below him on the social ladder. Utterly candid and compulsively readable, these essays conjure up and untangle those raw and formative years. The writers cringe and laugh at the teenagers they were, but at the same time, they honor their adolescence and the way it shaped their lives. Because, in truth, beneath the layers of adult respectability, we all still carry a little bit of our teenage selves around with us.

In Who Can Save Us Now?, the new anthology edited by Owen King and John McNally, talented writers unite to fight the forces of evil. Each writer will introduce a new superhero who is equipped to tackle the challenges of the 21st century. In combining terrific writing and the subject matter of comics and cartoons, Who Can Save Us Now?bridges the gap between literature and pop culture, much like Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clayand Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude. To date the full list of contributors is as follows: John McNally, Owen King, Jim Shepard, Tom Bissell, Jennifer Weiner, Stephaine Harrell, George Singleton, Sean Doolittle, Will Clarke, Noria Jablonski, Elizabeth McCracken, Sam Weller, Kelly Braffet, Scott Snyder, David Yoo, David Haynes, Cary Holladay.

Edited and with contributions by Owen King (We''re All in This Together) and John McNally (America''s Report Card this anthology enriches the superhero canon immeasurably.Twenty-two of today''s most talented writers (and comics fans) unite in Who Can Save Us Now?, an anthology featuring brand-new superheroes equipped for the threats and challenges of the twenty-first century -- with a few supervillains thrown in for good measure. With mutations stranger than the X-Men and with even more baggage than the Hulk, this next generation of superheroes is a far cry from your run-of-the-mill caped crusader. From the image-conscious and not-very-mysterious masked meathead who swoops in and sweeps the tough girl reporter off her feet; to the Meerkat, who overcomes his species'' cute and cuddly image to become the resident hero in a small Midwestern city; to the Silverfish, "the creepy superhero," who fights crime while maintaining the slipperiest of identities; to Manna Man, who manipulates the minds of televangelists to serve his own righteous mission, these protectors (and in some cases antagonizers) of the innocent and the virtuous will delight literary enthusiasts and comic fans alike. With stunning illustrations by artist Chris Burnham, Who Can Save Us Now? offers a vibrant, funny, and truly unusual array of characters and their stories.

Ein Actionthriller aus der Froschperspektive: Winzigkleine Helden kämpfen gegen riesige Gegner wie Insekten, Regentropfen und Hauskatzen. Ihre Waffen sind Witz, Scharfsinn und Coolness. Endlich eine Abenteuerreihe mit Humor. Großartig!"Witzig, aufregend, hi(r)nreißend gut!" Derek LandyInfinity Drake, genannt Finn, und sein verrückter Onkel Al sind gerade auf dem Weg in die Ferien, als Al zu einer internationalen Krisenkonferenz abberufen wird. Die Welt steht vor einer globalen Katastrophe: Im Süden Englands wurde ein sogenannter Scarlatti freigesetzt, ein Killerinsekt, das innerhalb weniger Tage die halbe Menschheit auslöschen könnte.Sofort wird ein Interventionsteam zusammengestellt, das den Scarlatti verfolgen und vernichten soll. Es gibt bereits eine heiße Spur, aber der Scarlatti ist so klein wie ein Daumen und schwirrt durch ein Gebiet so groß wie die ganze Grafschaft Surrey. Nur ein Team, das genauso winzig ist, hat eine reale Chance ihn zu finden.Eine durchgeknallte Idee?Nein, denn Onkel Al hat eine Maschine erfunden, mit der die gesamte Crew auf durchschnittlich 9 Millimeter geschrumpft werden kann. Ein hochriskanter Auftrag, für den nur speziell ausgebildete Agenten in Frage kommen.Kurz nachdem er das Team auf seine gefährliche Mission geschickt hat, vermisst Onkel Al plötzlich seinen Neffen Infinity ..."Scarlattis Söhne" ist der erste Band der Infinity Drake-Trilogie.Mehr Infos rund um Infinity Drake unter:infinitydrake.de

James Bond war gestern: Wie ein moderner Gulliver kämpft ein winzigkleiner Held gegen gigantische Widersacher. Seine Waffen sind Witz, Scharfsinn und Coolness sowie jede Menge wissenschaftliche Facts. Ein grandioser Actionthriller aus der Froschperspektive, und auch noch mit Humor. Großartig!Ein neuer Fall für das millimetergroße Nano-Einsatzteam, zu dem auch der 13-jährige Finn gehört: Ausgerechnet in die größte Hardwarefabrik der Welt ist eine Armee bösartiger Nanobots eingedrungen, winzig kleine Roboter, die eine Art "Schwarmintelligenz" besitzen und die hier hergestellten Spielekonsolen und Smartphones infizieren. Und damit in die ganze Welt verschickt werden könnten. Ein Zusammenbruch der globalen Computersysteme wäre die Folge. Totale Kontrolle und Manipulation, vielleicht sogar die Auslöschung der Menschheit.Noch während das Einsatzteam sich bereit macht, werden Finn und Oma plötzlich entführt …"Jagd in der verbotenen Stadt" ist der zweite Band der Infinity Drake-Trilogie.