The Hunchback Assignments (26 page)

ARTHUR SLADE was raised in the Cypress Hills of southwest Saskatchewan and began writing at an early age. He received an English honors degree from the University of Saskatchewan, spent several years in advertising, and is now a full-time fiction writer. He is the author of
Dust
, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Literature,
Tribes
, and
Megiddo’s Shadow.
His most recent novel is
Jolted: Newton Starker’s Rules for Survival.
He lives in Saskatoon with his wife, Brenda Baker. Visit his Web site at
www.arthurslade.com
.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2009 by Arthur Slade

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Slade, Arthur G. (Arthur Gregory)
    The hunchback assignments / Arthur Slade.—1st ed.
        p. cm.
    Summary: In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild.
    eISBN: 978-0-375-89389-6
[1. Disfigured persons—Fiction. 2. Supernatural—Fiction. 3. Spies—Fiction. 4. London (England)—History—19th century—Fiction. 5. Great Britain—History—Victoria, 1837-1901—Fiction. 6. Science fiction.]
I. Title.
    PZ7.S628835Hu 2009
    [Fic]—dc22
            2008054378

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