As Garrick relentlessly hunts them down, Riley and Chevie face a desperate race to stay alive and stop Garrick from returning to his own time - armed with knowledge and power that could change the world forever.

Chevie Savano, the FBI's youngest and most impulsive special agent. Albert Garrick, the terrifying assassin-for-hire pursuing Riley through time, along with. Riley is a Victorian orphan, hurtled into the twenty-first century and on the run from his evil master. Hiding witnesses in the past to protect the future - until now. It all began with the FBI and WARP (Witness Anonymous Relocation Programme).

The Matrix meets Oliver Twist, WARP: The Reluctant Assassin is the first of a major new series by Eoin Colfer, the bestselling author of Artemis Fowl. Colfer has the ability to make you laugh twice over: first in sheer subversive joy at the inventiveness of the writing, and again at the energy of the humour - Sunday Times Readers mourning the end of the Artemis Fowl series can take heart: this first book in the time-bending WARP series is an all-out blast.

The reluctant assassin