Summary of the Book 'Revenge':
The Revenge of the Shadow King is the first volume of three books in the Grey Griffins series written in collaborative writing by American authors Derek Benz and J.S. Lewis and published by Orchard Books an imprint of Scholastic Inc. The book follows the story of four friends who form The Order of the Grey Griffin.
Excerpts from the Book 'Revenge':
... I mean you, and you???the suetheads who profited by my work, but refused your help. You've been yammering about narcotics for years???how drug addiction ...
... the roots. That's what I meant to do???and did???for your benefit. Oh, I admit there were a few dollars in it for me, but so what? The ox that treads ...
... $50,000 a year by some improved process, or even by using three bolts someplace instead of four, they gladly pay him three per cent of the annual savings, ...
... Percherons to pull the big red wagon. So I taught at one jerkwater college after another. Sooner or later my superiors, all dodderers ...
... of many great advances in science. Get off the main line. Stop fooling with the leaves of the tree, and turn to the roots. Invert the problem, if ...
... bad narcotic drugs from different plants, like marijuana, but they play a relatively small part, and can be controlled. Besides, it was my intention ...
... were, or became, immune to the disease, just as insects build up resistance to the most potent poisons. But with my virus that's simply not possible. ...
... except that, as usual, I lost my job. I got fifty term papers behind. It didn't bother me, because there wasn't a student in my three classes who knew ...
... ten minutes with El Pomposo himself. As I've said, dumb students are nothing new to me. But even the worst of them couldn't have been any more obtuse ...
... It was a violation of the conventions against germ warfare. It was barred by international law. It was unthinkable that the United ...
... all the unwritten rules and made jackasses of us before the world. Now, obviously, if I killed all the poppies in the world, that would be a fait ...
... I know that Washington ball it's all angles, and doesn't roll worth a damn. I went cold at the thought. Before you can get an okay on anything ...
... found a live opium poppy on the face of the earth. Once current stocks are gone, there'll be no more narcotics deriving from that particular plant. ...
... get your signatures to a petition to purge the H.E.W. Department, or to start a Congressional investigation. You just laughed at me. You enjoyed ...
... after the first, it's easier. When I turn them loose, you'll have a real grievance against me. This time, you're getting notice in advance, so ...
... may have no fury like a woman scorned, but the fury of a biochemist ...
... European War. Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the ...
... by Anthony Hope to The Prisoner of Zenda, written in 1895, but not published until 1898. Queen Flavia, dutifully but unhappily married to her cousin ...
... make an' keeps tabs on every day we go backward. Any time all ye hev to do is to read that thing an' it'll tell ye jest what day 'tis. R.C. ...
... father, the Duc de Marny. Baroness Emma Orczy The Elusive Pimpernel First published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th ...