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Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
Horowitz, Anthony
His nursery school. Chief Inspector Snape says, "He started young." Quite an understatement!
Peregrine. Nick Diamond says, "I didn't like Peregrine Palis from the start.". His name is also mentioned several times during the book.
Purple Peacock. The vase had been stolen from the museum.
9:35 am. It never got to its cleaning destination. The van was stolen at a gas station.
Woburn Abbey. There Nick gets framed for stealing a Woburn Carbuncle by Snape and Boyle.
Pink. The cardigan fell to the ground when she tried to attack Nick with her knitting needles.
6 months. In actual fact, he got 18 months. The judge was shocked at what he had done.
95446. Nick was disappointed to find that was his new name-nobody would bother calling him Nick from now on.
Teachers . His prison warden treated him like his teachers did, so he made the comparison.
Concrete. The road running alongside the prison was 100% concrete.
Eggs. Some eggs splattered across Nick and Johnny's getaway vehicle.
Grapefruit. Nails Nathan also has one, but makes the mistake of telling Johnny they're good for him. In return, Johnny slams the yoghurt carton on the side of Nathan's face, where it explodes.
t. He is convinced they died because their police car blew up. They are alive and well though, but Nick wasn't to know that. Boyle got burns and had to be taken to hospital.
Penelope. It turns out it is just the name of a boat Johnny Powers is using to store stolen goods.
Hot chocolate. We know this because Ma Powers says, "Sure, Johnny. Come and finish your hot chocolate." He is only fifteen.
Dead meat. He was holding a gun and was about to shoot when Tim sneezed a second time and made him jump.
f. It survives a bomb explosion, a flood and all the transportation between venues after its theft. However, it couldn't survive a Tim Diamond sitting on it!
Peregrine Palis. Mr Palis tries to shoot Nick at the end, but he manages to escape unhurt. He realises in his French lesson that it was Mr Palis all along.
MI6. John Rider was actually reporting everything that happened in Scorpia to MI6.
plane crash. Many people thought he was shot by a sniper on Albert Bridge, but it was only set up to look like he had died.
PARAS. PARAS is the second toughest regiment in Britain.
Jack Starbright. Jack Starbright is actually from America.
Yes. He does join and he tries to kill Mrs. Jones. He goes back to MI6 and stops Scorpia's plan.
Tulip. Her parents were gardeners.
Pizza delivery boy. He was dressed up like that to complete his mission for Scorpia.
Students. A poison is injected into kids as a shot that they have to get before school starts.
Yes. He saved many people's lives by betraying Scorpia.
His uncle wasn't wearing a seatbelt. This suspicion brought Alex to "J.B Stryker's" to investigate his uncle's car. This later led to Alex discovering his uncle's secret life as an MI6 spy.
James Sprintz. All of these people attended 'Point Blanc Academy' and Dr. Grief created doubles of each one to attempt to take over the world. James Sprintz was the only one not to have been replaced by the double when Alex arrived so was his only friend.
"Blood and Strawberries". In this chapter, Alex was tricked by the member of the Chinese gang in to following him underground in Wimbledon and having to fight for his life.
White Lines. It was supposed to have included four anti-drug songs. Damien Cray was so fanatical about ending the world's drug production that he almost ended up destroying the future of the Earth rather than saving it.
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