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When the Goon turns up demanding "Archer’s 2,000", life turns upside down. As Howard desperately tries to get to the bottom of this peculiar demand, he discovers that the town is run by seven crazy wizards (not all of whom live in the present!) and someone is trying to take over the world! Exciting, bizarre and truly hilarious!
After the Goon moves into the Sykes' house and refuses to budge, ... Archer's Goon by Jones, Diana Wynne. Publication date 1984 Topics Wizards, Brothers and sisters ...
30 de sept. de 2021 · Archer’s Goon has been a favourite of mine ever since I was a child. Set in an unnamed town in England, it follows 13-year-old Howard Sykes and his family (plus student lodger Fifi) as they discover the tall, broad ‘Goon’ in their kitchen, there to collect the two thousand that someone called Archer is owed by Howard’s father, Quentin.
After the Goon moves into the Sykes' house and refuses to budge, thirteen-year-old Howard learns some startling information about his family, including the fact that he is adopted and that his father is connected with the seven wizards who run the town.
The trouble started when Howard Sykes came home from school and found the Goon sitting in the kitchen and preventing Fifi from making the tea. He'd come to collect for Archer, he said - Howard's father had got behind with his payments and he'd better deliver fast.
18 de feb. de 2003 · Archer's Goon. Hardcover – February 18, 2003. by Diana Wynne Jones (Author) 4.5 350 ratings. See all formats and editions. The trouble started when Howard Sykes came home from school and found the "goon" sitting in the kitchen. He said he'd been sent by Archer.
- Diana Wynne Jones
Archer’s Goon is the complex plot of a town secretly administered by a mafia of seven wizard siblings – Archer, Shine, Dillian, Hathaway, Torquil, Erskine and Venturus – who extract a tax from every aspect of the town’s life and commerce. Young Howard Sykes (Jamie de Courcey) lives with his parents, Quentin (Roger Lloyd Pack) an author ...
