Lost Bullet

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基本信息·出版社：Kingfisher Books Ltd
·页码：212 页
·出版日期：2007年07月
·ISBN：0753414945
·条形码：9780753414941
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Traces: Luke Harding, Forensic Investigator

内容简介 In the slums of London, Luke and Malc investigate a doctor's murder. They find a bullet wound to her head, but rain has washed away the bullet - and all other clues. As more innocent victims die, pressure builds on Luke and Malc to find the culprit before the bizarre shooting spree becomes an all-out massacre. Imagine a place where technology rules...where London is a slum and the North is a cultural capital...where from the age of five, the authorities decide your future. In this fascinating parallel world, quick-thinking Luke Harding is the youngest Forensic Investigator ever, aged just 16. Luke and his right-hand robot, Malc, make a top team. Together, they have the talent to crack any crime - and a good joke, too. Doctor Anna Suleman is ruthlessly shot dead leaving work one evening. Luke and Malc are put on the case by The Authorities. Luke discovers Owen Goode was shot at too, nearby, at a similar time. Teenage runaway Goode shows Luke the pamphlet that fell from the high-rise window of the person who shot at him. It gives details of a religious cult called the Visionaries. The cult disapproves of doctors and pairing committees as they believe they interfere with god's chosen path for humans. Luke suspects the unhinged Ethan Roach, leader of the Visionaries, who uses snakes for Luke's scary initiation ceremony into the cult. Luke's other suspects include Dr Coppard who is Anna's partner (she had been having an affair) and Alex Foxton, Anna's boss, was against her illicit work with conjoined twins. Then another doctor and a pairing committee are murdered. Luke feels he has many leads but is getting nowhere. Out of the blue Luke and Malc suffer a violent attack in a lift shaft. Malc is obliterated but with painstaking work is rebuilt. He just managed to catch a picture of the killer - Reece Morgan, receptionist at Luke's hotel and covert Visionaries member. He had attended services in disguise so Luke never recognised him. Despite Luke and Malc thinking they were getting nowhere it was their actual extreme proximity that made Morgan attack Luke and Malc and thus reveal himself. The case is solved.
作者简介 Malcolm Rose, a former professor of chemistry, is a well-known children's thriller writer of some 25 novels. Malcolm has won the Angus Book Award (Tunnel Vision) and the Lancashire Book of the Year Award 2001 (Plague). His books regularly feature in the Book Trust 100 best books for children list. In the USA, Traces: Framed! was selected as a Best International Book by the International Reading Association. Malcolm lives in Sheffield. Previous publications: Framed!, Roll Call, Double Check, Final Lap (all Traces titles)
媒体推荐 "Fast-moving storytelling in true thriller tradition" Jan Mark, TES"
编辑推荐 Graham Marks - Children's Editor, Publishing News
CSI meets SciFi – a deft, smart mix of murder, mystery and future mayhem. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Jan Marks, Times Educational Supplement, March 4th 2005
This is fast-moving storytelling in true thriller tradition, with enough subtext to leave a perceptive reader thinking. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


专业书评 From Booklist
Gr. 6-9. The plot may not be entirely watertight, but fans of melodramatic crime dramas will suck up this rain-soaked page-turner in the Traces series. Set in a decrepit alternate or future London where whites are a persecuted minority, the story features teenage forensic investigator Luke Harding and his robot sidekick. Called on to look into a doctor's murder, Luke finds himself trailing a serial killer into a world of slums, exotic snakes, and an illegal Brown Supremacist cult that meets in the decaying Underground. While folding in plenty of action and on-stage violence, Rose calls on his background as a chemistry professor to provide specific scent and residue clues, and gives Luke an amusingly literal-minded robot companion, a clever foe, and a subplot involving a love interest before wrapping things up with a dose of just deserts. The offbeat but well-envisioned locales bode well for future episodes. See Naughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman on p.1796 for another take on a society where minority roles are reversed. John Peters
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