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The Reluctant Assasin (W.A.R.P., Book 1)
Eoin Colfer
After botching a mission, seventeen-year-old FBI agent Chevie Savano is sent in disgrace to London to babysit a metal capsule. She is NOT enjoying the boring assignment.

The capsule is part of W.A.R.P., the FBI’s Witness Anonymous Relocation Program. A portal to a time travel wormhole, it is used to hide witnesses in other eras.

But things go all wrong when fourteen-year-old
Riley—and a corpse—pop out, direct from 1898 Victorian London. It turns out that scrappy Riley is a reluctant assassin-in-training, and his murderous mentor, Albert Garrick, is not far behind. Riley either has to kill someone in modern London or be killed by Garrick!

In any case, Garrick is a real problem. With the newly acquired scientific knowledge gained through his wormhole trip and his abilities as a magician, he has some dastardly plans for