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{{Infobox Book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> |
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| name = The French Confection |
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| image = [[Image:The French Confection cover.jpg|200px]] |
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| image_caption = First edition |
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| author = [[Anthony Horowitz]] |
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| cover_artist = Phil Schramm |
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| country = [[United Kingdom]] |
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| language = [[English language|English]] |
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| series = [[The Diamond Brothers]] |
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| genre = [[Children's literature|Children's short story]] |
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| publisher = [[Walker Books]] |
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| pub_date = 6 Jan 2003 |
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| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]]) |
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| pages = 84 pp |
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| isbn = 978-1-4063-0492-3 |
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| oclc= 76936198 |
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| preceded_by = [[South By South East]] |
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| followed_by = [[The Blurred Man]] |
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[[Category:The Diamond Brothers|French Confection, The]] |
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'''The French Confection''' is a children's [[novel]] by [[United Kingdom|British]] author [[Anthony Horowitz]], writer of the successful [[Alex Rider]] series, first published on 6th January 2003.<ref>[http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/edition/?isbn=0744590396 Fantastic Fiction]</ref> It is the fourth in [[the Diamond Brothers]] series.<ref>[http://www.walkerbooks.co.uk/Books/By-Category/Junior-Fiction-The-Diamond-Brothers-Series Walker Books - Diamond Brothers series]</ref> It was included in the omnibus ''[[Three of Diamonds (collection)|Three of Diamonds]]'' in 2004. |
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==Title== |
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The title is a play on ''[[The French Connection (film)|The French Connection]]'', a 1971 Oscar-winning film based on the real-life [[French Connection|drug-smuggling operation]] between France and the United States. In the story it is the name of a Parisian cake-shop. |
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==Plot summary== |
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The Diamond Brothers win a dream holiday in [[Paris]] due to an award from a yoghurt company. On the train, they meet Erica Nice, a French baker, and Jed Mathis, a Texan oilman. The Diamond Brothers mention to them that they are staying at Hotel Le Chat Gris. The steward drops some coffee at hearing this. As the Diamond Brothers get off the train, they are met by the steward who tells them to beware of someone called the Mad American and hands them a sugar sachet. The steward is later pushed under a train. |
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At the hotel, they see a man in gray who seems to be interested in them. Two thugs, Bastille and Lavache, accost the brothers in the street with a knife, and threateningly demand to know what the steward gave to them. While trying to get away from them, Nick and Tim jump from a bridge into a passing [[bateau mouche]]. They are locked up by the gendarmes but when they mention Bastille and Lavache they are hurriedly released. |
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They return to find their hotel room has been turned upside down, soon after they are kidnapped and interrogated. They realize they are in a drugs factory, and Nick guesses that the sugar sachet must contain drugs. The criminals try to kill the brothers by giving them an overdose, but fortunately they are taken to hospital just in time, as the Police were out looking for them. The man in grey, who is from the [[Sûreté]], asks for their help. He is revealed to be from a French company fighting against drugs, and says Le Chat Gris is sometimes used by the Mad American, meaning he thought the Brothers had come to buy drugs. Nick remembers some things about the place they were held and realises the place is in the Jewish Quarter, due to a blue star he saw, and they track down the Mad American - who turns out to be Madame Erica Nice. She is arrested for running a drug smuggling racket after Nick and Tim knock her out with a giant cake when entering her cake shop, 'The French Confection'. |
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==Footnotes== |
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{{reflist}} |
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{{The Diamond Brothers}} |
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{{DEFAULTSORT:French Confection, The}} |
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[[Category:2003 short stories]] |
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[[Category:British short stories]] |
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[[Category:Children's short stories]] |
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[[Category:Short stories by Anthony Horowitz]] |
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