Philip Pullman

The White Mercedes Philip Pullman

Publisher Marketing: A chance meeting with Jenny at an Oxford party leaves seventeen-year-old Chris with hope for a summer romance - and no premonition of trouble. Busy with his job and soon in love with Jenny, whose cheerful surface belies the dark uncertainty of her past, Chris misses all the signs of danger. Before he knows it, he's caught in the sinister web of a criminal whose desire for revenge crushes all those who stand in his way. Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/21/1997 (EAN 9780679886235, Mass Market Paperbound) Booklist 04/15/1993 pg. 1506 (EAN 9780679831983, Hardcover) School Library Journal 03/01/1993 pg. 224 (EAN 9780679831983, Hardcover) ALA Recmd for Reluctant YA's 01/01/1994 pg. 1360 (EAN 9780679831983, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1993 (EAN 9780679831983, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 04/12/1993 (EAN 9780679831983, Hardcover) School Library Journal 07/01/2011 pg. 53 (EAN 9781441875648, Compact Disc) Contributor Bio:  Pullman, Philip Philip Pullman is the acclaimed author of the internationally renowned His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass, winner of the Carnegie Medal (England); The Subtle Knife, winner of a Parents Choice Gold Book Award; The Amber Spyglass, the first children s book to win the overall Whitbread Award (England); and Lyra s Oxford. His other books for children and young adults include The Scarecrow and His Servant, Spring-Heeled Jack, Count Karlstein, and a trilogy of Victorian thrillers featuring Sally Lockhart: The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North, and The Tiger in the Well. A graduate of Oxford University with a degree in English, Philip Pullman lives in Oxford, England.