The reluctant assassin
Title:
The reluctant assassin
Author:
Colfer, Eoin
ISBN:
9780141341767
Publication Information:
London [etc.] : Penguin, 2013
Physical Description:
320 p. ; 24 cm
Series:
Warp ; 1
Series Title:
Warp ;
Abstract:
In Victorian London, Albert Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and his reluctant young apprentice, Riley, are transported via wormhole to modern London, where Riley teams up with a young FBI agent to stop Garrick from returning to his own time and using his newly acquired scientific knowledge and power to change the world forever.
Subject:
| Time travel -- Juvenile fiction |
| Assassins -- Juvenile fiction |
| London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction |
| Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Juvenile fiction |
| Science fiction |
Summary:
In Victorian London, Albert Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and his reluctant young apprentice, Riley, are transported via wormhole to modern London, where Riley teams up with a young FBI agent to stop Garrick from returning to his own time and using his newly acquired scientific knowledge and power to change the world forever.