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An unresolved ending augurs more to come. Suggest this to readers not quite ready for the darker extremes of Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series. Punches are thrown and received but no deaths occur, and Jimmy's convivial ensemble of helpful adults and peers leavens the propulsive suspense. Now Jimmy struggles against NJ7 and his programming, yet finds it useful as he sneaks back into England to rescue. He’s more machine than boy, genetically programmed to kill. It seems that Britain has been taken over by a dictatorship, and 11-year-old Jimmy is a product of the new secret service, NJ7. Readers will cheer at Jimmy's refusal to meekly accept the 'organic evil' inside him, and will flinch at the creepy subterfuge behind every aspect of his upbringing. Roaring, constant action zooms along in this first sequel to Jimmy Coates: Assassin (2005). The story feels as engineered as its bionic hero, but Craig acquits himself admirably within the paint-by-numbers structure. Called into service before his programming has fully kicked in, Jimmy now faces devastating conflicts as autocrats command him to lay waste to their political opponents. He is 38 percent human and 62 percent 'Earth's finest technological hardware,' a genetically altered assassin created by an increasingly dictatorial British state. The first clue that Jimmy Coates isn't an ordinary 11-year-old comes when mysterious officials arrive at his house and announce, 'We've come for the boy.' Jimmy outruns them, helped by instincts that seem more refined than typical fight-or-flight reflexes.

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