***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
- Disney Book Group, Made available through hoopla
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 377 KB
- Series
- W.A.R.P. 1
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- England--London., Great Britain,Great Britain., London (England), United States
- ISBN
- 1423181158
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Riley, a teen orphan boy living in Victorian London, has had the misfortune of being apprenticed to Albert Garrick, an illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and now uses his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims' dwellings. On one such escapade, Garrick brings his reluctant apprentice along and urges him to commit his first killing. Riley is saved from having to commit the grisly act when the intended victim turns out to be a scientist from the future, part of the FBI's Witness Anonymous Relocation Program (WARP) Riley is unwittingly transported via wormhole to modern day London, followed closely by Garrick. In modern London, Riley is helped by Chevron Savano, a nineteen-year-old FBI agent sent to London as punishment after a disastrous undercover, anti-terrorist operation in Los Angeles. Together Riley and Chevie must evade Garrick, who has been fundamentally altered by his trip through the wormhole. Garrick is now not only evil, but he also possesses all of the scientist's knowledge. He is determined to track Riley down and use the timekey in Chevie's possession to make his way back to Victorian London where he can literally change the world.
β¦ Subjects
Great Britain
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