This is particularly true in the case of Chevron Savano, hot-headed, impulsive sixteen year old FBI agent, who, despite being the subject of a rather… awkward investigation just can't wait to join the fed. There is a famous quote: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Worse than that, there's a strange girl pointing a very dangerous-looking gun at him. Worse than that, there's a dead man next to him and he's holding a knife. One wormhole, one magic pendant and several orange sparks later, Riley finds himself in a strange new world with no idea how he got there. Unfortunately, his young apprentice isn't sure he wants to follow Garrick in his line of work, and when he gets cold feet on his first job, there is a rather tense moment before all hell breaks loose. Unfortunately, he is not the only one with tricks up his sleeve…īedford Square. He may not be a prodigy, or a daredevil, but he has his own traits that get him through the book.

Riley is no Artemis Fowl, nor a Conor Broekhart, but a character of his own. All of Colfer's books are completely different, yet all are of the same high standard and all the characters just as diverse but immediately lovable. Instead, his books read as realistically as real life. It has got to the point where Colfer, the highly praised fantasy writer, writes fantasy no more. He masterfully tells the tales of a very secret organisation, time travel, a Victorian boy sucked into the twenty-first century, a hired assassin, a girl named after a petrol station, a crooked banker who is plagiarising modern books and releasing them into the Victorian era, and an awful lot of bad luck. Not a good combination.Įoin Colfer, much acclaimed author of the Artemis Fowl series, returns in this brilliant new novel, W.A.R.P: The Reluctant Assassin.

A Victorian street urchin, the sentimental apprentice to an illusionist/hired assassin. The Charlie Chaplin-like comedians, the romantic Mr Darcys, the heroic Achilles types. In literature, there are some recurring characters.

The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer