Expats, espionage and exotic destinations. "Empty Quarter" is gripping - you won't be able to put it down.Darcie's stuck aboard a cruise ship for problem rich kids. It sounds exotic but it's more like boot camp. And, annoyingly the US President's daughter with her reputation for being out-of-control is there too.Things are about to get interesting though...Darcie becomes embroiled in a kidnapping plot that will take her from Naples, via Cyprus, to Egypt and on a terrifying journey through the desert empty quarter.It is an adventure-thriller starring Darcie Lock.
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Julia Golding read English at Cambridge then joined the Foreign Office and served in Poland. Her work as a diplomat took her from the high point of town twinning in the Tatra Mountains to the low of inspecting the bottom of a Silesian coal mine. On leaving Poland, she exchanged diplomacy for academia and took a doctorate in the literature of the English Romantic Period at Oxford. She then joined Oxfam as a lobbyist on conflict issues, campaigning at the UN and with governments to lessen the impact of conflict on civilians living in war zones. Married with three children, Julia now lives in Oxford. Her first book, The Diamond of Drury Lane, won the 2006 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and Nestle Children's Book's Prize 9-11 age category.
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By Chloe Louise
Format:Paperback
Girl on the Run: Empty Quarter Book 2 (Darcie Lock)This book is the second book and is just as good as the first-Ringmaster! In this series Darcie goes on a cruise which she thinks she has been put on because she is a bad person and her family don't love her, however her grandfather has actually put her on the cruise to spy on, befriend and protect the prime ministers daughter. Darcie doesn't even realise she is on this mission but is however completing it perfectly as she becomes best friends with her. Christopher Lock (grandfather) feels very guilty however when Darcie and the other children from the boat are taken hostages and the people who have kidnapped them in the desert realise that one of the children is a spy (they find a tracking device inside Darcie's phone) Because Darcie is unaware that she is on a mission she is shocked to realise that that they leave her in the desert to die and kill one of her friends and take away her best friend to bribe the prime minister. This book has an amazing plot- make sure you buy and read book 1 first though! I love these books, really worth the read.
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By G. Ashworth
Format:Paperback
This book is about a girl called Darcie Lock who finds herself sent off on a cruise joining other children who have parents that either want to get rid of them or get them `finished off.' They are then split up into groups and every day they have the chance to be a Pharaoh and give people orders, a slave who has to receive orders and the cooks who have to receive orders from the slaves who have been ordered from the Pharaohs. She is having the time of her life with her new friends on this cruise, until she has been told that she was being disruptive and sabotaging the `Fresh Start' plan. This book is amazing. It gets you extremely hooked and gets you reading for hours at a time. I would definitely recommend it to friends!
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By B. Howstan
Format:Paperback
empty quarter is a great book! i would seriously recomend it. i couldnt put it down and ended up reading it all in 1 night! (i was up untill 4am!) darcie is on a cruise ship with an organisation to help problem kids, but she finds herself and two other people being held hostage in the egyptian dessert! its really thrilling and easy to read
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