The reluctant assassin is Riley, a Victorian boy who is suddenly plucked from his own time and whisked into the twenty-first century, accused of murder and on the run.

Riley has been pulled into the FBI's covert W.A.R.P. operation (Witness Anonymous Relocation Program). He and young FBI Agent Chevie Savano are forced to flee terrifying assassin-for-hire Albert Garrick, who pursues Riley through time and will not stop until he has hunted him down. Barely staying one step ahead, Riley and Chevie must stay alive and stop Garrick returning to his own time with knowledge and power that could change the world forever.

Published
April 2013
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"Eoin Colfer". It is almost a new noun. People who read the Artemis Fowl series, Airman and other books written by him, know by now that he has a special way of writing. This has the characteristics of rather sarcastic humour, a he-narrator who, at some exiting point, starts a long explanation which you can only partly understand. This is probably why Colfer must be one the most known writers of this century! If you read other books by him, then you must certainly try "The Reluctant Assassin", the first book in W.A.R.P., which stands for 'Witness Anonymous Relocation Programme'. According to the female protagonist, the CIA probably put the 'Anonymous' in it because [quote by Chevie Savano] 'otherwise they would have WRP and what kind of acronym would that be?' (See what I mean with his way of writing? That way!) If you haven't read any books by Colfer, then this is the time to start with it.
If you read other books by Colfer, then you'll notice that he has put in some things from other books. There is a street named Half Moon Street, which comes from the book "Half Moon Investigations" and some people might remember Otto Malarkey and Little Saltee from "Airman". At this time, there have been no mentions of Artemis Fowl, but, well, it's a series about time-travel, so maybe that's for another book in the series.
This book is yet another one masterly written! Read it! You won't regret it!

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