Tunnels 05 - Spiral

Skull Gate, the Colony, Coprolite, and spade, shovel, and machete chapter-ending spots © by Brian Williams.
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    Song lyrics from “Let’s Panic Later” by Wire © 1979
    The Book of Proliferation
. English translation © 2000 Professor Grady Tripp, used with his kind permission
    Song lyrics from “The Son of God Goes Forth To War” by Reginald Heber (1812)
    Song lyrics from “Time Is on My Side” by Jerry Ragovy © 1963, as later recorded by the Rolling Stones in 1964
    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
    Gordon, Roderick.
Spiral / Roderick Gordon [and] Brian Williams. — 1st American ed.
p. cm. — (Tunnels series ; bk. 5)
Previously published: Frome : Chicken House, 2011.
    Summary: The outer crust is under attack by the subterranean Styx who are turning ordinary humans into walking bombs and incubators for their eggs, and only Will Burrows and his band of retired commandos stand in their way — but the Styx also have problems of their own.
ISBN 978-0-545-42961-0 — ISBN 978-0-545-43027-2
1. Civilization, Subterranean — Juvenile fiction. 2. Science fiction. 3. Adventure stories. 4. England — Juvenile fiction. [1. Underground areas — Fiction. 2. Adventure and adventurers — Fiction. 3. Science fiction. 4. England — Fiction.] I. Williams, Brian. II. Title.
    PZ7.G6591Spi 2012
823.92—dc23
    2012001989
    e-ISBN 978-0-545-53014-9
    First American edition, May 2012
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    Cover art © 2012 by David Wyatt
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