The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
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ISBN: 074347676X / Publisher: Pocket Star, July 2003
In 1899, with the British Empire in mortal peril, a top-secret group of extraordinary and sometimes infamous operatives--including explorer Allan Quartermain, Captain Nemo, Dr. Henry Jekyll (and his alter ego Mr. Hyde), the Invisible Man, Dorian Gray, Mina Harker, and American secret agent Tom Sawyer--join forces to stop an insidious evil. Original. (A 20th Century Fox film, written by James Robinson, starring Sean Connery, Tony Curran, Jason Flemyng, Tom Goodman Hill, David Hemmings, Richard Roxburgh, Max Ryan, Naseeruddin Shah, Stuart Townsend, Shane West, & Peta Wilson) (Suspense)
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London, 1899. As the British Empire lies in mortal jeopardy, a top-secret initiative unites several of the most illustrious (and sometimes infamous) personages of the age: Allan Quartermain, famed explorer and adventurer; Captain Nemo, master of the undersea submersible Nautilus; Dr. Henry Jekyll, and his brutish alter ego, Mr. Hyde; Rodney Skinner, the Invisible Man; Dorian Gray, the ageless subject of a diabolical portrait; Mina Harker, surviving victim of the late Count Dracula; and a scrappy American secret agent named Tom Sawyer. Together, they form... LXG When a criminal mastermind known only as "The Fantom" plots to hurl the world into war, the League must race across the globe to foil the masked madman's insidious scheme. But they may not have reckoned with the traitor in their midst...!
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