SuitabookIngenuity and recklessness
Delilah is described as smart and foolhardy while using skills gained during her travels.
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Tony Cliff - Author
This is a fast-moving historical-seeming adventure about an audacious traveller, a flying boat and an unlikely partnership. Expect pursuit, piracy and fighting alongside comedy, travel and a plot involving theft from a corrupt ruler.
Lovable ne'er-do-well Delilah Dirk has travelled to Japan, Indonesia, France, and even the New World. Using the skills she's picked up on the way, Delilah's adventures continue as she plots to rob a rich and corrupt Sultan in Constantinople. With the aid of her flying boat and her newfound friend, Selim, she evades the Sultan's guards, leaves angry pirates in the dust, and fights her way through the countryside. For Delilah, one adventure leads to the next in this thrilling and funny installment in her exciting life. **A little bit Tintin, a little bit Indiana Jones, Delilah Dirk is a great pick for any reader looking for a smart and foolhardy heroine... and globetrotting adventures.**
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a fast-moving historical-seeming adventure about an audacious traveller, a flying boat and an unlikely partnership. Expect pursuit, piracy and fighting alongside comedy, travel and a plot involving theft from a corrupt ruler.
Delilah is described as smart and foolhardy while using skills gained during her travels.
Delilah plots to rob a rich and corrupt Sultan, making opposition to his authority part of the adventure’s premise.
The action includes attempted robbery, evading guards, angry pirates and fights. A reader who is sensitive to peril or combat may want to check how intensely these scenes are presented as the story unfolds.
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