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Characters from the Epic of Gilgamesh populate this high-stakes contemporary adventure in which all of Manhattan is threatened by the ancient god of plagues.Thirteen-year-old Sik wants a simple life going to school and helping at his parents' deli in the evenings. But all that is blown to smithereens when Nergal comes looking for him, thinking that Sik holds the secret to eternal life.Turns out Sik is immortal but doesn't know it, and that's about to get him and the entire city into deep, deep trouble.Sik's not in this alone. He's got Belet, the adopted daughter of Ishtar, the goddess of love and war, on his side, and a former hero named Gilgamesh, who has taken up gardening in Central Park. Now all they have to do is retrieve the Flower of Immortality to save Manhattan from being wiped out by disease.
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Hi, thanks for checking out my page! What can I tell you? Okay, I was born and brought up in London and I write kick-ass adventures with a touch of the dark side.Coming up next from Rick Riordan Presents is CITY OF THE PLAGUE GOD (Jan 2021) . It's a grand, mythological adventure about what would happen if an unstoppable disease should appear out of nowhere and infect everyone! Could never happen in real life, eh? For you YA fans (and who isn't one? ) you'll not get light-weight thrills with either Billi SanGreal, the only female Knights Templar and heroine of THE TEMPLAR'S DAUGHTER series.I reckon a lot of my ideas come from my days of backpacking. I've travelled a lot, lived in Hong Kong and been from Mongolia to Ghana, from Nicaragua to India and seen a lot of weird stuff that I thought, "Hey, that would make a cool story some day!"And here we are, a long time later! So if you like it intense, with a healthy does of horror and dash of humor, check out my tales and sign up on my newsletter for news, secret writing tips and even a few competitions on www.sarwatchadda.com.Have a good one.Sarwat
