Simon Decker and the Secret Formula: Graded Reader Level 1 : Activity Book and Teacher's book
Simon heard a woman scream, then a gunshot. There was another shot and the sound of glass breaking. Simon fell to the floor and crawled towards the kitchen. Rocky was in there, barking and jumping at the kitchen door. Simon held Rocky in his arms to keep him quiet, then he listened. A car door opened and closed, then the car drove quickly away.
It was more than an incident. It was a deadly assault across the 38th parallel. It was the Korean War. In the fear and frenzy of battle, those who had served with heroism before were called again by America to man the trenches and sandbag bunkers. From Pusan to the Yalu, they drove forward with commands too new and tanks too old: brothers in war, bonded together in battle as they had never been in peace...
The final part of a saga set against a history of 7000 years of struggles of gods and kings and men. The Orb of Aldur was restored - but the Prophecy was unfulfilled. It drove Garion on, but it gave no answer to the question that haunted him: how does a man kill an immortal god?