Local fans of young adult fiction can help celebrate author Eoin Colfer’s new book series, W.A.R.P. with the first in the series, The Reluctant Assassin. Traveling all the way from Ireland, Colfer visits to share the new book at a special Anderson’s Bookshop event at 7PM on Tuesday, May 14.
Colfer, the author of the children’s bestselling series, Artemis Fowl, will appear at Naperville’s Beebe School, 110 E. 11th Ave. to spotlight his new book, The Reluctant Assassin.
Tickets are available with the purchase of the book from Anderson’s Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave. in downtown Naperville.
To attend the event, contact or visit Anderson’s and purchase your copy of The Reluctant Assassin.
About the Book: Riley, a teen orphan boy living in Victorian London, has had the misfortune of being apprenticed to Albert Garrick, an illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and now uses his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims’ dwellings. On one such escapade, Garrick brings his reluctant apprentice along and urges him to commit his first killing. Riley is saved from having to commit the grisly act when the intended victim turns out to be a scientist from the future, part of the FBI’s Witness Anonymous Relocation Program (WARP) Riley is unwittingly transported via wormhole to modern day London, followed closely by Garrick.
In modern London, Riley is helped by Chevron Savano, a nineteen-year-old FBI agent sent to London as punishment after a disastrous undercover, anti-terrorist operation in Los Angeles. Together Riley and Chevie must evade Garrick, who has been fundamentally altered by his trip through the wormhole. Garrick is now not only evil, but he also possesses all of the scientist’s knowledge. He is determined to track Riley down and use the timekey in Chevie’s possession to make his way back to Victorian London where he can literally change the world.
About the Author: Eoin Colfer is the New York Times best-selling author of the Artemis Fowl series, Airman, Half Moon Investigations, The Supernaturalist, Eoin Colfer’s Legend of… books, The Wish List, Benny and Omar; and Benny and Babe. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.
To attend the event, contact or visit Anderson’s, 123 W. Jefferson Ave. in downtown Naperville and purchase your copy of The Reluctant Assassin.
About Special Author Events: Anderson’s Bookshops presents Colfer’s program as part of its frequent calendar of special author events. Anderson’s Bookshops specialize in book sales, author events, book signings, and building a sense of community, learning and fun. The store has been helping Naperville readers for six generations. In 1878, Oswald’s pharmacy began selling books as a service to customers. So successful was that side of the business that it became an independent entity in 1964. Based in downtown Naperville, the store has grown with the community ever since. A second location is also open in downtown Downers Grove. A gift shop, Anderson’s Two-Doors East, at 111 W. Jefferson Ave., in Naperville, opened in the fall of 2009. Key to Anderson’s success has been special author events, like the Tuesday, May 14 program with author Eoin Colfer.
