by Desmond Bagley, Varios Autores · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194230865
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«The Enemy» is the graded suspense reader by Desmond Bagley, adapted by Ralph Mowat, published in paperback (128 pages, in English).
On a summer afternoon in Marlow, a young woman is attacked with acid by a stranger. The young woman's father, the scientist George Ashton, disappears shortly afterwards. The young woman's sister, Penny, discovers that her fiancé, Malcolm, is a government agent. The search for answers reveals secrets from Ashton's past.
It belongs to the Oxford Bookworms Library collection, Stage 6, with 2500 headwords. The original novel was published in 1977.
For upper-intermediate English students who want to practice with a suspense and adventure read.
Desmond Bagley was an English journalist and novelist known mainly for a series of bestselling thrillers. He and fellow British writers such as Hammond Innes and Alistair MacLean set conventions for the genre: a tough, resourceful, but essentially ordinary hero pitted against villains determined to sow destruction and chaos for their own ends.
