Send Simon Savage #1 (27 page)
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t a late-night conference, Professor McPhee and Captain Cutler stared carefully at the Timeline Operations Screen in the Command Centre.
‘This next mission’s a dicey one,’ McPhee said. ‘And I want someone to go tomorrow.’
‘Where’s it to?’ Cutler asked.
‘France, fifteenth century. It involves a lot of soldiers, a lot of experts with the crossbow.’
‘Then we need someone who can get in and out quickly,’ Cutler said. ‘And who isn’t afraid to think on their feet.’
‘We need our best operative,’ McPhee said.
‘No question, then,’ Cutler said.
McPhee nodded. ‘We’ll send Simon Savage.’
In writing this book, I would like to thank the following people for their kind assistance and advice: Kory Hearn, Helen Nolan, Allicia Stadon, Bethany Watt, Fiona Carruthers, Belle and Larry Buttrose, Nerine Martini, Caroline Stanton, Rachel Skinner, Cheryl Tornquist, John Stephenson, Alex Paige and other esteemed members of the Carringtonians. I’d also like to thank Sigrid Jagusch and the food and coffee brigade at the Red Door Cafe, Leura. As always, the neighbourhood cat, Martin, has taken a keen interest in the progress of this book, and in my kitchen leftovers.
Thanks also to Rod Hare, Margrete Lamond, Kate Mayes and Libby Volke at Little Hare Books and to my agent, Rick Raftos. The author is grateful to Professor Geoffrey Blainey for his
Very Short History of the World
which proved a most useful resource on the epochs of humanity. The author now promises to become even more informed by reading the longer ‘short’ version.
Coming soon …
Return of the Black Death
Simon Savage, the temponauts and the Time Bureau are on full alert. The Black Death has started to appear in major cities around the world. There are fears of a global pandemic.
The plague has been carried to the present time by the fleas on rats from the fourteenth century. But who is behind this deadly scheme?
The Time Bureau has its suspicions. Simon, Danice, Ivan, Nick and Taylor face a long struggle across the eons with a sinister group of time travellers known as the Shadowers.
Meanwhile, Simon must find his family. Where have they gone? Will he be able to unravel the clues to their disappearance? Can he protect them from the Time Bureau itself?
The adrenalin-pumping action continues in
Send Simon Savage—Return of the Black Death
.
Stephen Measday has spent his life writing books, scripts, plays and poems, and occasional advertising slogans for his father’s pharmacy.
Stephen’s ancestors voluntarily left Sandwich in England in 1854 and settled in South Australia where they helped out the barefooted by making shoes and boots.
Over a century later, Stephen grew up in a faraway country town and went to work in Adelaide as a reporter, before deciding to take up full-time writing as a profession.
He now lives in the Blue Mountains, outside Sydney, where he collects books, goes bushwalking, watches cricket, reads about rare animals and dreams of safaris in Africa.
Stephen hopes that
Measday
will one day be recognised as the official eighth day of the week.
Send Simon Savage
is his sixteenth book and he intends to write some more.
So watch out!
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a reader’s mum
‘A fast-paced read with all the gadgets (love the biodynamic suits), close calls and adventure any thrill seeker could want.’
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‘… this fast-paced action thriller is hard to put down.’
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‘Very similar to Matthew Reilly’s books,
Send Simon Savage
offers … plenty to share and enjoy.’
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Little Hare Books
an imprint of
Hardie Grant Egmont
85 High Street
Prahran, Victoria 3181, Australia
Text by Stephen Measday 2010
Text copyright © Pacific Century Media Corporation 2010
First published 2010
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Measday, Stephen.
Send Simon Savage / Stephen Measday.
eISBN 9781743581391
For primary school age.
Time travel—Juvenile fiction.
A823.3
Cover design by Xou Creative (
www.xou.com.au
)
Set in 11/15 pt Candida by Clinton Ellicott
