The Gifts 9781784408220 But later that night a

But later that night a gun goes off in an alley near the shore and the young couple flee together

a puff of air - as if to send dandelions flying

Alex Rider has been forced into the Australian secret service - his target is the criminal underworld of South East Asia

ʼn taalstudent in Sjanghai

before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family

The Gifts 9781784408220 But later that night aOctober 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in Shropshire as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. Meanwhile, when rumours of a 'fallen angel' cause a frenzy across London, a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grip of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the most terrible danger . . . A gripping and ambitious book told through five different perspectives