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Jimmy Coates: Killer | 
 enlarge | Author: Joe Craig
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Category: Book
List Price: £5.99
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Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 9082
Media: Paperback
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0007196857
Dewey Decimal Number: 364
EAN: 9780007196852
ASIN: 0007196857
Publication Date: April 4, 2005
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 Thriller for all ages June 20, 2006
Joel Walker (UK)
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
Jimmy Coates is just sitting at home, minding his own business, when two big men in suits arrive at his house and tell his parents that they've "come for the boy".
So begins a gripping thriller that will inevitably be compared to the Alex Rider series and the Young Bond books. "Jimmy Coates: Killer" will definitely appeal to fans of those books, but if anything, it has an even greater sense of urgency. The mystery is as important as the action, and there is a genuine feeling of danger and paranoia surrounding the wonderfully created central character.
In fact, I was reminded more of Robert Ludlum (of "The Bourne Identity") than Anthony Horowitz, but either way, the book stands up some pretty high calibre comparisons.
It is a very inventive book, and at times it is also very funny, while always propelling the story onwards at a rollicking pace.
This is one that is too good to be left only to children. It's as well constructed and pacy as anything by Matthew Reilly, as gripping as Ludlum, and as inventive as Horowitz.
Jimmy Coates - Killer Read! March 22, 2005
OR (London, UK)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I recently picked up a copy of this debut kids' book by new author Joe Craig. I love it!! It is, as warned on the cover, 100% compulsive, and I did experience some difficulty putting it down, so gripped was I by Jimmy's adventures, and by Joe Craig's eloquent, witty and often times touching prose. I have a feeling that lots of kids will find their parents sneaking off with their copy - it is that good... So now that Craig has solved my birthday gift conundrum for my young cousins this year, I am now hooked myself, an avid Jimmy Coates fan, already looking forward to his next adventure....
Jimmy Coates: Killer read!!! April 6, 2005
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic MUST-READ new classic for all ages. Though it is supposedly targetted at early teens it made me, a grown man, tremble and gasp like a child. It is as tightly plotted an action thriller as you will find coming out of Hollywood, as well as being funny, charming and quintessentially British. I read it in a single day, I couldn't put it down! For anyone a bit sick of wizards and elves, this is a new breed of book for people who like their fiction dark, pacy and satisfying. The Ferrari of crossover fiction. READ IT OR DIE UNHAPPY!
Jimmy Coates - Kids Classic. April 5, 2005
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I bought this book to read to the kids I look after over the holidays and we have finished it in the first four days - it's that good! Both of them were gripped and shunned the television in favour of the book. I don't want to ruin the fun for you so I'll keep the review cryptic!A page turning thriller with action packed onto every page, Jimmy Coates keeps the reader on the edge of their seat. He's a boy with a secret, made all the more tantalising by the fact that he doesn't know what it is. The author maintains interest by moving the plot quickly and keeping clues to the outcome to a minimum. All in all a book which deserves to be on every child's bedside table before the year is out. I can't wait for the next one (there's a taster in the back of the book). When else will I be guaranteed a peaceful weekend?
Jimmy Coates - I'm hooked!! March 21, 2005
OR (London, UK)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I just picked up a copy of new UK author Joe Craig's debut kids' book. I love it!! This is one serious page turner - I just couldn't put it down - and believe me, I tried several times, as I have other things to do! I have a feeling that many young readers may find their parents sneaking off with their copy - because it actually is, as explained on the cover, 100% compulsive. I now know exactly what to get my young cousins for their birthdays this year, and I just hope that there will be copies left once the word gets out! This is a fantastic read for kids and grown-ups too, and I am already trying to predict what happens in the sequel...
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