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Jordan Stryker: Bionic Agent by Malcolm Rose
Most 13-year-old boys would give an arm and a leg to be a secret agent...
And that is almost literally the price that Ben Smith must pay when his lifeless and shattered body is dragged from the debris of his home and he gets the chance to become a bionic spy.
Malcolm Rose is one of the master writers of children’s fiction and the first book of his new action-packed adventure series is buzzing with the thrills and spills of a James Bond blockbuster and the technological wizardry of Iron Man.
A former chemistry lecturer, Rose has garnered his scientific knowledge to build an amazing boy hero who is transformed into a walking work of modern engineering when disaster strikes London.
Ben Smith is just a normal teenager until terrorists detonate tons of explosives which have been aboard the wreck of a ship in the Thames estuary since 1944.
In an instant, his world changes forever...his family are killed outright in the massive explosion and Ben suffers horrific injuries.
His head is smashed, his right arm is torn off and his internal organs are ruptured ... but his eyes are still open and there are small signs of life.
Against all the odds, Ben survives but his body and his spirit are broken until a mysterious man called ‘Angel’ arrives and takes him to ‘Unit Red,’ a secret government centre where the doctors appear to already know him inside out.
Their task is to rebuild him, replacing flesh, bone, blood and nerves with motors, rods, wires and electronics, and turn him into Jordan Stryker, a bionic agent with infra-red vision and a powerful titanium arm.
Part body and part machine, Jordan Stryker is a boy with no past and a single mission...to seek out terrorists who operate beyond the normal bounds of the law and to work for truth and justice.
Jordan takes up the gauntlet and makes his first request...he wants to track down the dangerous extremists who killed his family...and he wants to know why they did it.
It’s a tough remit for the new agent and he’s going to learn the hard way about the sacrifices that have to be made in the search for justice...
Jordan Stryker is a super superhero...a very human teenager wrapped up in a robotic body with evil enemies to confront and a host of electronic gadgetry at his disposal.
Move over Mr Bond...
(Usborne, paperback, £5.99)
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