London Calling

Adam Sharp #2

by George E. Stanley

He's tracked down bad guys. He's saved the world (several times). Pick up the line, Adam Sharp! It's . . . "London Calling"!
Who would steal Big Ben, the most famous clock in the world? Superspy Adam Sharp jets off to England to find out. But when he gets to London, it's overrum with cowboys and cowgirls. They're having a hoedown in the House of Lords. They're square dancing in Buckingham Palace. Has England gone hog-wild?

Genres: Chapter Books

44 pages, Paperback

First published October 8, 2002

About the author

George Edward Stanley was born in Memphis, Texas on July 15, 1942. He received a bachelor's degree in 1965 and a master's degree in 1967 from Texas Tech University. He earned his Doctor Litterarum in African Linguistics in 1974 from the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. He lived all over Europe and Africa, studying and teaching foreign languages, working for the U.S. government, and writing books for young people and adults. He started writing fiction while a Fulbright professor in Chad, Central Africa, where about the only diversion he found available was listening to the BBC on his short wave radio. That led to his writing radio plays for a program called World Service Short Story. Three of his plays were eventually produced. After writing and publishing over 200 short stories in American, British, Irish, and South African magazines and linguistics articles in major international journals, he started writing books. He wrote over 100 fiction and non-fiction books for young people including The Katie Lynn Cookie Company series and the Adam Sharp series. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of M. T. Coffin, Franklin W. Dixon, Laura Lee Hope, Carolyn Keene, Adam Mills, and Stuart Symons. He was a professor of African and Middle-Eastern languages and linguistics in the department of foreign languages at Cameron University. He died from a ruptured aneurysm on February 7, 2011 at the age of 68.

Reviews

[Debra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Adam Sharp is a kid's James Bond. When called up for a special project, someone has stolen Big Ben, he whisks away from school to solve the problem. A quick read with great adventure and amusing twists.

[Hillvan]

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