Peril in the Peaks

Peril in the Peaks is the fourth book in The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest book series.
The novel is credited to "Brad Quentin", the pseudonym used for all the books in the series, but it was actually written by Terry Bisson.Terry Bisson's official website: Life Works page, quote: "As “Brad Quentin,” he wrote three JONNY QUEST novels (Demon of the Deep, Peril in the Peaks, and Attack of the Evil Cyber-God) for HarperPrism."
== Premise ==
Official synopsis from the back cover:
== Plot summary ==
Drew and Singh pilot a cargo plane for Felix Air. Near the Himalayas in a place called Cloud Alley, they look for an alleged ghost plane that Drew's seen on previous routes. While tracking the plane, their plane is boarded and taken over by pirates.Chapter 1.
At the Quest Compound, Jonny, Jessie, and Hadji are doing chores when Colonel William Sullivan visits. He asks Dr. Quest to help him investigate his lost plane in Cloud Alley using a mapping device, and Dr. Quest agrees.Chapter 2. Two days later, the Quest team takes a DC-3 to Cloud Alley. As they're setting up Dr. Quest's cloud-penetrating camera, they spot another DC-3 emerge from the clouds.Chapter 3. The Quest Team follow the unarmed DC-3, but they're boarded. Race and Bandit fall out the open cargo door. Once the pirates have control, Hadji convinces Jonny and Jessie to stay hidden in the back. The pirates take the plane beneath the cloud cover.Chapter 4. The pirates land the plane, and Jonny, Jessie, and Hadji jump out. Jessie tells them that she thinks her dad is still alive, and shows them the locator on her belt. Two snowmobiles pull up to the DC-3, one takes Dr. Quest and Colonel Sullivan in one direction, and the other tows the plane. As the kids approach the landing site, they hear growling from a crevasse in the ice. They follow the snowmobile that took Dr. Quest and Colonel Sullivan.Chapter 5.
Jonny, Jessie, and Hadji rappel down an icy cliff's ledge to the greener valley below. They see yaks and walk towards a cabin with the light on. Hadji calls out in a local Indian dialect, but a woman inside responds with a British accent.Chapter 6. The elderly woman invites them in and they learn she's an Oxford graduate and speaks fluent English. She's surprised to hear they came down from "The Growling Glacier" which she says is protected by the Great Yeti. They tell her about their experience, and she gives them dinner and tea, and she tells them she has a plan to get them into town where Dr. Quest and Colonel Sullivan would be. They all go to sleep. Jonny wakes the next morning to the sound of the Yak bells and discovers about 20 yaks all around the cabin. Rose tells them it's market day, and the yaks follow Rose to town. Jonny, Jessie, and Hadji wear fur robes over their clothes so they looked like yak herders. In town, there are very few people out, and no children. Rose asks an old man where everybody is, and he tells them that Wallace the Wizard is about to make an announcement. Rose and the Quest teens head to the High Castle to hear the announcement.Chapter 7.
At the High Castle, Wallace the Wizard comes out with the Little Lama, who speaks in a local dialect that two spies have been captured. Rose translates for the Quest kids. After the announcement, Jessie is determined to get a phone, but she's caught after she sneaks a walkie-talkie off a guard. Hadji can't let her be taken alone and he runs out. The guard arrests them both, leaving only Jonny free. As he walks through town, something tugs at his pant leg and woofs -- Bandit has returned.Chapter 8. Bandit runs off and leads Jonny through the streets to Race, who has dyed his hair jet black and was wearing local clothing to blend in. Jonny tells Race what happened, and Race tells him that he survived by cutting of a sky-pirate's parachute. He intended to hold onto the pirate rather than let him fall, but when he saw Bandit, Race chose to save the dog instead. Race landed in a "rebel area" and befriended Singh and Drew, the pilots who went missing the week before. They reveal that "Wallace the Wizard" is Felix, Colonel Sullivan's presumed-dead old partner.Chapter 9.
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== Appearances ==
=== Characters ===
* Jonny Quest
* Hadji Bingh
* Jessie Bannon
* Dr. Benton Quest
* Race Bannon
* Bandit
* Drew, a 28-year-old Scot who pilots for Felix Air
* Singh, an engineer from Scotland who pilots for Felix Air
* Colonel William "China Bill" Sullivan, a pilot during WWII and an old friend of Race
* Old Rose, an elderly woman living in Sharma-La
* Faizu, the Little Lama, the spiritual ruler of Sharma-La
* Arisa, a girl locked in Market Jail
Villains:
* Felix aka Wallace the Wizard, a mechanic and Colonel William Sullivan's partner who was presumed dead in WWII; as Wallace the Wizard he's the dictator of Sharma-La and controls the Little Lama, he's outlawed science, travel, and poetry, and he "cast the spell" of the cloud cover over the valley
=== Locations ===
* Himalayas
** Cloud Alley
** Sharma-La, the green valley under Cloud Alley
*** Old Rose's cabin
*** Sharma, the town and capital of the Sharma-La valley
**** High Castle
**** Market Jail
* Quest Compound
* Northern India
Mentioned only
* England
* Scotland
* Southeast Asia
** Burma
=== Objects ===
* Dr. Quest's mapping camera that can penetrate cloud cover
* Jessie and Race's locators
=== Vehicles ===
* Felix Air Short A786, a twin-engine turboprop plane used to transport cargo, piloted by Drew and Singh
* The "ghost plane", an unmarked Dakota, twin-engine DC-3
* Humvee, washed by the kids at the Quest Compound as part of their chores
* Felix Air's current DC-3, which the Quest Team takes to Cloud Alley
* Two snowmobiles, used by the pirates
Mentioned:
* Felix Air's lost DC-3, it was lost a few years prior in Cloud Alley
* A Harley Davidson (motorcycle)
=== Other ===
* Felix Air, a cargo airline created by Colonel Sullivan and named in honor of his lost partner Felix
== Quotes ==
== Releases ==
Peril in the Peaks was published by HarperCollins in North America, Australia, and the UK.
Publisher / Imprint 	Region 	Date 	ISBN-10 	ISBN-13
HarperCollins / HarperPrism	USA and Canada	December 1996	 	
HarperCollins / HarperPrism	Australia 	 	0-06-105718-5	978-0-06-105718-2
HarperCollins 	UK 	 	 	
== Notes/trivia ==
* This is the second book to mention that Jessie is eager to believe in unicorns (ch7, pg30). The first was The Demon of the Deep, which was also ghostwritten by Terry Bison.
* The valley Sharma-La is meant to resemble the mythical paradise valleys Shambhala and Shangri-La. This is the first Jonny Quest story to feature an adaptation of Shambhala and Shangri-La; the second is Shambala which appears in the episode The Bangalore Falcon.
Goofs and inconsistencies:
* This book includes a character named Singh, which is Hadji's surname in the television series. The character has no relation to Hadji.
* In the book, Hadji is a year older than Jonny (chapter 2, page 6); in the TV series, Hadji is two years older.
* The "Quest Compound" is written as "Quest compound" with only Quest being capitalized.
* Burma is mentioned a few times, but Burma didn't exist in the mid-1990s when the book was written and when it takes place; in 1989 Burma became Myanmar.
== Gallery ==
Peril in the Peaks back (NA).jpg|Back cover, North America release
Peril in the Peaks back (AU).jpg|Back cover, Australia release
Peril in the Peaks back (UK).jpg|Back cover, UK release
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