This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 307 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Random House USA Inc .

Paul Haven is a journalist who was, until recently, Bureau Chief of the Associated Press for Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is now Bureau Chief for the AP in Cuba. He has a British wife and two young children. He spends a lot of time in London, not least because his in-laws are there! He has published one previous book in the US, TWO HOT DOGS WITH EVERYTHING (a fantasy novel about baseball) and has plans to follow up THE SEVEN KEYS OF BALABAD with a sequel.