***When Ursula's young son is kidnapped, she is lured into an impossible dilemma.*** March, 1581. Queen Elizabeth is once again being urged to consider marriage to the Duke of AlenΓ§on, a French Catholic twenty years her junior. The prospect of the match is causing unrest throughout the kingdom.
The Reluctant Assassin
β Scribed by Eoin Colfer
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd;Puffin
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 551 KB
- Edition
- UK
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0141341777
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
It all began with the FBI and WARP (Witness Anonymous Relocation Programme). Hiding witnesses in the past to protect the future - until now . . .
Riley is a Victorian orphan, hurtled into the twenty-first century and on the run from his evil master . . .
Albert Garrick, the terrifying assassin-for-hire pursuing Riley through time, along with . . .
Chevie Savano, the FBI's youngest and most impulsive special agent.
As Garrick relentlessly hunts them down, Riley and Chevie face a desperate race to stay alive and stop Garrick from returning to his own time - armed with knowledge and power that could change the world forever.
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