Rat Runners
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- £10.99
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- £10.99
Publisher Description
Four young criminals. One simple task: steal a mysterious box from the daughter of a dead scientist. They have to follow her, bug her phone, hack her computer, search her home, all without her knowing.
But WatchWorld run this city now. On every street are cameras, X-ray scanners, microphones. Terrifying Safe-Guards can see through walls, hear your heartbeat, analyze the smell of your sweat. Their motto? If you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear.
But Nimmo, Scope, Manikin and FX, who work in the blind-spots of the city's shady underworld, are soon caught in a maze of deception, treachery and murder... will they make it out of the rat-runs alive?
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Crime and intrigue flourish in this surveillance-dominated, slightly futuristic version of London; the perpetrators have evolved along with the technology. One of the city's crime lords assembles a teenage crew to track down a valuable item that has gone missing in the wake of a scientist's murder. Manikin handles deception, her brother FX does tech, Scope is into forensics and analysis, and their nominal leader, Nimmo, is a consummate con artist and infiltrator. As the job leads the group down some strange, duplicitous paths, the question becomes: what's so important about their target? Soon everyone is in on the chase, including rival criminals, mercenaries, and the authorities. Irish author McGann offers up a twisty, unpredictable thriller, augmenting the heist atmosphere with science fiction elements and keen characterizations. Once the true scope of the problem is revealed, those speculative elements make a significant jump forward, technologically speaking, but it's still a tense, entertaining story. The real fun comes in watching these heroes work when all the odds are against them, in a city where someone is always watching and nowhere is safe. Ages 12 up.
