Threat of the Spider [Audiobook]
By (Author) Michael P Spradlin
2
Simon & Schuster Audio
Simon & Schuster Audio
24th June 2025
Audiobook
United States
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Warfare, battles, armed forces
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories
CD-Audio
A twelve-year-old boy searches for his father and fights for free press amid the chilling rise of Hitler's Germany in this second book in the action-packed middle grade series Web of the Spider for fans of I Survived and A Night Divided.Ansel has never been afraid to say what's on his mind. He's always the first among his friends to speak up when something doesn't feel right. When the Hitler Youth first set up shop in Heroldsberg the year before, Ansel quickly made enemies of the chapter's arrogant leader, Hans. Of course, Ansel is also twelve years old, so he spends much of his time reading his favorite Dirk Goodly, Boy Detective novels and trying to make his friends laugh. But more and more of his classmates have been swayed by Hans's tactics and the Youth organization is growing throughout the city. Ansel knows that Hans and his group are spreading false information--after all, Ansel's father is a journalist for the local paper and has been going toe to toe with Nazi propaganda for a long time. Then Ansel's father goes missing right before a prominent Nazi leader comes to town. With the local police in the Nazi's pocket, can Ansel and his friends use their detective skills to find his father and thwart the Nazi's plans to suppress the truth
In addition to penning the international bestselling Youngest Templar trilogy, Michael P. Spradlin is also the author of the Spy Goddess novels and several picture books. He was born in a small town in Michigan and grew up with a healthy and natural suspicion of all Hoosiers and Buckeyes. When he is not writing, he travels the world in his fully automated yacht, aboard which he enjoys cooking, water skiing, and plotting Total World Domination. He's just kidding about that last part. He really doesn't enjoy water skiing.