Hero

Zusatztext Praise for Hero :   “[N]othing Mike Lupica has written will thrill you like this.” –William Goldman! author of The Princess Bride   “Sportswriter and novelist Lupica offers a change of pace from his previous sports stories for younger readers! deftly reworking the traditional superhero origin story into a moving tale of adolescent growth.” – Publisher’s Weekly   “[T]he stage is set for a sequel to what looks like a surefire hit.” – School Library Journal Informationen zum Autor Mike Lupica is the author of multiple bestselling books for young readers, including QB 1 , Heat, Travel Team, Million-Dollar Throw, and The Underdogs. He has carved out a niche as the sporting world’s finest storyteller. Mike lives in Connecticut with his wife and their four children. When not writing novels, Mike Lupica writes for New York's Daily News, appears on ESPN's The Sports Reporters and hosts The Mike Lupica Show on ESPN Radio. You can visit Mike Lupica at mikelupicabooks.com   Klappentext From the #1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica comes the story of one unsuspecting boy poised to follow in his superhero father's footsteps Fourteen-year-old Billy Harriman can feel the changes. The sharpening of his senses. The incredible strength. The speed! as though he can textmessage himself across miles. The confidence and the strange need to patrol Central Park at night. His dad had been a hero! a savior to America and a confidante of the president. Then he died! and the changes began in Billy. What Billy never knew was that his father was no ordinary man-he was a superhero! battling the world's evil. This is a battle that has been waged for generations and that knows no boundaries. And now it's Billy's turn to take on the fight. It's Billy's turn to become a hero."[N]othing Mike Lupica has written will thrill you like this.” -William Goldman! author of The Princess Bride "Sportswriter and novelist Lupica offers a change of pace from his previous sports stories for younger readers! deftly reworking the traditional superhero origin story into a moving tale of adolescent growth.” -Publisher's Weekly "[T]he stage is set for a sequel to what looks like a surefire hit.” -School Library Journal 1   THERE were four thugs, total gangsters, in front of the house with their rifles and their night-vision goggles. Four more in back. No telling how many more inside.   So figure a dozen hard guys at least, protecting one of the worst guys in the world.   Not one of them having a clue about how much trouble they were really in, how badly I had them outnumbered.   Hired guns, in any country, never worried me. The Bads? They were the real enemy, worse than any terrorists, even if I was one of the few people alive who knew they existed.   Even my boss, the president of the United States, didn’t know what we were really up against, how much he really needed me.   When he talked about our country fighting an “unseen” threat, he didn’t know how true that really was.   When my son, Zach, was little, I used to tell him these fantastic bedtime stories about the Bads, and he thought I was making them up. I wasn’t.   The snow was falling hard now, bringing night along with it. Not good. Definitely not good. I didn’t need a blizzard tonight, not if I wanted to get the plane in the air once I got back to the small terminal near the airport in Zagreb. Which was only going to happen if I could get past the guards, get inside, and then back out with the guy I’d come all this way for. It meant things going the way they were supposed to, which didn’t always happen in my line of work.   My official line of work? That would be special adviser to the president. A title that meant nothing on nights like this. On assignments like this. The real job description w...

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• Autori: Mike Lupica
• Editore: Philomel Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 02.11.2010
• EAN: 9780399252839
• ISBN: 978-0-399-25283-9
• Pagine: 304
• Dimensioni: 163 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm