Help name this childrens book?
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This is bugging me. I've got a vague memory of a book I read as a kid 30 years ago. It featured a sort of death ray carried by pigeons in Trafalgar Square (I kid you not). I have a vivid memory of a scene where the young hero cycles through an empty London very early on a summer morning, but can't for the life of me remember anything else. Google has not helped.
Does this book exist or am I having a weird nightmare?
Does this book exist or am I having a weird nightmare?
The novel was "The Deadly Freeze" by Bruce Carter. The opening scenes with people dropping dead on Trafalgar square (including some particularly obnoxious youngsters who had climbed up on one of the lions) is also seared into my memory well over 40 years later.
Not sure if relevant 12 years after your original post, but I found myself in the same position this weekend of not being able to remember the name of it and your post was the only one that proved that this book existed. Eventually, I found it by tracking down (from memory) which series of German SciFi books it had appeared in in translation and bingo. Googling the "Deadly Freeze" and "Bruce Carter" will bring up links to the original, and "Wettlauf mit der Zeit" + author brings up the German cover, which, tbh, looks a tad more cool, I would say ;-).
Would include links directly but this is my first post on here and I don't want to have it get killed for link-spam.
Not sure if relevant 12 years after your original post, but I found myself in the same position this weekend of not being able to remember the name of it and your post was the only one that proved that this book existed. Eventually, I found it by tracking down (from memory) which series of German SciFi books it had appeared in in translation and bingo. Googling the "Deadly Freeze" and "Bruce Carter" will bring up links to the original, and "Wettlauf mit der Zeit" + author brings up the German cover, which, tbh, looks a tad more cool, I would say ;-).
Would include links directly but this is my first post on here and I don't want to have it get killed for link-spam.
RamessesOnline said:
The novel was "The Deadly Freeze" by Bruce Carter. The opening scenes with people dropping dead on Trafalgar square (including some particularly obnoxious youngsters who had climbed up on one of the lions) is also seared into my memory well over 40 years later.
Not sure if relevant 12 years after your original post, but I found myself in the same position this weekend of not being able to remember the name of it and your post was the only one that proved that this book existed. Eventually, I found it by tracking down (from memory) which series of German SciFi books it had appeared in in translation and bingo. Googling the "Deadly Freeze" and "Bruce Carter" will bring up links to the original, and "Wettlauf mit der Zeit" + author brings up the German cover, which, tbh, looks a tad more cool, I would say ;-).
Would include links directly but this is my first post on here and I don't want to have it get killed for link-spam.
Bravo indeed! Not sure if relevant 12 years after your original post, but I found myself in the same position this weekend of not being able to remember the name of it and your post was the only one that proved that this book existed. Eventually, I found it by tracking down (from memory) which series of German SciFi books it had appeared in in translation and bingo. Googling the "Deadly Freeze" and "Bruce Carter" will bring up links to the original, and "Wettlauf mit der Zeit" + author brings up the German cover, which, tbh, looks a tad more cool, I would say ;-).
Would include links directly but this is my first post on here and I don't want to have it get killed for link-spam.
You're a bloody hero for posting this reply and I owe you a debt of thanks and a pint!
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