Showing results by author "Eoin Colfer" in Literature & Fiction

If Artemis Fowl is “Die Hard with Fairies”, then W.A.R.P. is “Oliver Twist” meets “The Matrix”…The Reluctant Assassin is the first book in the W.A.R.P. series. W.A.R.P. stands for ‘Witness Anonymous Relocation Programme’. The assassin of the title is young Riley who has been apprentice to Albert Garrick, a Victorian illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and taken to using his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims’ dwellings.

Young FBI agent Chevie Savano arrives back in modern-day London after a time-trip to the Victorian age, to find the present very different from the one she left. Europe is being run by a Facsist movement known as the Boxites, who control their territory through intimidation and terror. Chevie's memories come back to her in fragments, and just as she is learning about the WARP program from Professor Charles Smart, inventor of the time machine, he is killed by secret service police.

Ein neues Abenteuer für die genialen Fowl-Twins. Die Zwillinge Myles und Beckett sind wie immer gelangweilt und unternehmen deshalb mit dem Fowlschen Düsenjet einen kleinen "Ausflug". Das Flugzeug wird unterwegs allerdings von einem mysteriösen Flieger attackiert und explodiert. Die Zwillinge können sich zwar in letzter Sekunde retten, doch Myles wird gefangen genommen und verschleppt. Nun muss Beckett mit einer ihm verhassten Elfe zusammenarbeiten, um seinen Bruder zu finden – und das obwohl er Hausarrest hat.