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Wallace Boys #12
Rebels across the Red Sea
This story, the twelfth in the Wallace Boys series, starts with a horrifying terrorist massacre of tourists at Queen Hatshepsut’s Temple, one of the most spectacular archaeological sites near Luxor in Egypt – something like this actually happened a number of years ago. Nigel is caught up in the massacre but has obviously escaped death. He is missing. Bruce and a new-found friend, a Saudi prince by the name of Hanafi, are then involved in a desperate rescue bid on camels across the deserts of northern Saudi Arabia to save Nigel.
215 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 17, 2012
About the author
Duncan Watt
26 books1 followerBorn near Victoria Falls in what was then Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, Watt, the only child of British parents, traveled to more than 80 countries around the world. Finally settling in Singapore in 1976.
He worked as a teacher and administrator at the British Council until he retired in 1992.
For 16 years, he read the prime time news on Channel 5 for the then Singapore Broadcasting Corporation. He also hosted an afternoon program on Symphony 92.4, playing light classics, until 2004.
His 20-book Wallace Boys series was set in far-flung places such as Kariba, Zimbabwe, the Skeleton Coast and the Scottish Highlands. He researched the locations for his books as thoroughly as possible, making it a point not to write anything he himself had not experienced.
Watt was diagnosed with liver cancer in June 2016. He died on 7 September 2017 at the age of 74.
He worked as a teacher and administrator at the British Council until he retired in 1992.
For 16 years, he read the prime time news on Channel 5 for the then Singapore Broadcasting Corporation. He also hosted an afternoon program on Symphony 92.4, playing light classics, until 2004.
His 20-book Wallace Boys series was set in far-flung places such as Kariba, Zimbabwe, the Skeleton Coast and the Scottish Highlands. He researched the locations for his books as thoroughly as possible, making it a point not to write anything he himself had not experienced.
Watt was diagnosed with liver cancer in June 2016. He died on 7 September 2017 at the age of 74.
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June 3, 2020
This is the first in what is apparently a trilogy within the series and IMHO the best of the books in the series so far. It is a good adventure with lots of excitement & with the boys taking big risks in unfamiliar territory. Readers learn a bit about riding camels and how to say a few useful words in Arabic. There are some illustrations that may have been great originally but didn't reproduce well. I am not going to down-rate the book for it but, sadly, this book is only available on Kindle and Kindle is excrementitious.
Nigel and Bruce are on route to deliver their Uncle's boat, the Silver Spray, their eventual destination, the island of Saint Helena. They have stopped to see the sights in Egypt. This book starts right out more violently than most of the books in the series as Nigel witnesses 67 tourists get gunned down by terrorists in a scene similar to the Luxor massacre of 1997. Bruce escapes only because he has gone off to take photos. Rushing back to the tomb of Hatshepsut, Bruce joins up with Prince Hanafi of the Royal House of Saud. They realize that Nigel is not among the dead, but has instead been kidnapped by the terrorists and they set out to find and, with luck, rescue him.
Nigel and Bruce are on route to deliver their Uncle's boat, the Silver Spray, their eventual destination, the island of Saint Helena. They have stopped to see the sights in Egypt. This book starts right out more violently than most of the books in the series as Nigel witnesses 67 tourists get gunned down by terrorists in a scene similar to the Luxor massacre of 1997. Bruce escapes only because he has gone off to take photos. Rushing back to the tomb of Hatshepsut, Bruce joins up with Prince Hanafi of the Royal House of Saud. They realize that Nigel is not among the dead, but has instead been kidnapped by the terrorists and they set out to find and, with luck, rescue him.
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