Fans of his other books will love this new addition and eagerly await the next installment in the series.-Jan Chapman. Colfer also incorporates some steampunk elements into the setting, which amps up the appeal. Garrick is a superbly menacing villain and Riley, the spunky street urchin with a heart, is a wonderful foil. The characters are vividly drawn and entertaining, particularly Chevron, a rebellious, punk rock FBI agent who is always breaking the rules. One of the most engaging aspects of Colfer's books is the brilliantly witty and imaginative plots that he devises. There, he meets Chevron Savana, a teen FBI agent, who joins up with him to escape the evil Garrick, who is hot on their heels. Suddenly, Riley is caught in a time-travel wormhole and transported to modern-day London. Garrick would like to initiate a reluctant Riley into the art of murder, but his first victim turns out to be the time-traveling agent of a future FBI witness relocation program. Riley, an orphan boy living in Victorian London, is apprenticed to the nefarious Albert Garrick, a magician who has turned from magic to robbery and murder.

(Witness Anonymous Relocation Program) series. Schulz, Ph.D., Teacher Librarian, Marysville Getchell High School, Marysville, Washington Recommended Library Media Connection'ĤQ 5P J S Fans of Eoin Colfer will be excited to read this first book in his new W.A.R.P. Like Colfer's Artemis Fowl series (Disney-Hyperion), this book has action but is considerably more menacing and sinister. Graphic violence leaves very little to the imagination and may be disturbing to sensitive readers. This story has spunky and resourceful teens who survive terrifying predicaments, nasty villains, nonstop action, and time travel. Eventually the teens escape Garrick and Chevron returns to his time. The chase meanders through disreputable districts in Victorian London populated with seedy inhabitants. The illusionist, Garrick, is transported to contemporary society and is determined to kill both Riley and Chevron. Chevron, an FBI trainee, befriends Riley.

Suddenly Riley and the dying man are transported to contemporary London. series, Riley, an evil magician's assistant in Victorian London, slits the throat of a sleeping scientist.

The reluctant assassin by eoin colfer