The Nine Lives Of Alexander Baddenfield

The Nine Lives Of Alexander BaddenfieldAlexander Baddenfield is a horrible boy a really horrible boy who is the last in a long line of lying, thieving scoundrels. One day, Alexander has an astonishing idea. Why not transplant the nine lives from his cat into himself? Suddenly, Alexander has lives to spare, and goes about using them up, attempting the most outrageous feats he can imagine. Only when his lives start running out, and he is left with only one just like everyone else, does he

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Nothing - and no one - is going to stand in the way of his driving ambition

he retraces this fateful period in his life

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returns to Creek's Cause to follow the Rains brothers as they fight an alien threat that has transformed everyone over the age of 18 into ferocious