The Kiss of Death

The War Diaries of Alistair Fury #3

by Jamie Rix

Everyone's trying to impress Giselle, the French exchange girl. Alistair Fury and the Revengers want to throw a party with people of their own age, kissing and crisps. If Giselle comes to that, she'll be able to see how attractive and mature Alistair is!

Audio Cassette

First published September 20, 2002

Reviews

[Hannah]

I really liked it and found it so funny

[Nathalie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a rather hilarious book which made you laugh (guiltily sometimes) and cringe at the same time. Alistair Fury is about 13 or 14 (I listened to the book on CD--highly recommend. Reader Robert Llewellyn is an absolute hoot and takes the book to supreme hyterical heights with his awesome British accent). Anyhoo, Alistair is the youngest of three siblings--he has an older brother and an older sister and they are the warring kind of siblings. They all give to each other as good as they get. I would be horrified if they were MY children of course, but it makes for a great story. Their much-tried mother stars in her own TV cooking show and their father is a rather funny and bumbling guy (don't remember his job) whose heart is in the right place but he can't seem to do anything right. They have a terrifying granny but again, much dark humor here. This is part of a series--"The war diaries of Alistair Fury"--and this episode is called "The kiss of death". Alistair hates French at school (again, listen to the reader's hilarious French) BUT, as part of an exchange program, the beautiful (and French with all that it implies for Alistair and his older brother) Giselle, is going to stay with Alistair's family for a couple of weeks. Much hijinks and over the top pranks and tricks are the order of the day. Will he or will he not be kissed by the beautiful Giselle!?!