Friday, June 7, 2013

The Reluctant Assassin / Eoin Colfer / 341 pages / Irish/Scottish Challenge

W.A.R.P.  Book 1
Chevron Savano is a seventeen year old American Indian orphan FBI agent.  The FBI had put together a program, "The Witness Anonymous Relocation Program - W.A.R.P.," in conjunction with Homeland Security to "stop terrorist cells from getting a grip on the minds of high school kids.  Half a dozen orphans were trained at Quantico and inserted into schools.  Chevron's target was an Iranian family with four kids in school.  Her observe-and-report mission turned deadly when a jeep full of guys accosted the Iraninas outside the movie theater.  Chevron came to the rescue and was banished to the hinterlands - London, as the Senate investigates the incident and the program.  Guarding a futuristic pod, she encounters Riley, a street urchin, magician apprentice from 1858.  Together they travel back in time.  "Like Holmes and Watson [they] are, but with extra munitions and explosions."  The time traveling adventure has multiple plot twists and nonstop action, not to mention a close-up tour of Victorian England.

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