Pages
304
Year
2011
Language
English

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What can he do with his new powers -- and what are they doing to him?Before the attack, Tom Harvey was just an average teen. But a head-on collision with high technology has turned him into an actualized App. Fragments of a shattered iPhone are embedded in his brain. And they're having an extraordinary effect on his every thought.Because now Tom knows, sees, and can do more than any normal boy ever could. But with his new powers comes a choice: To avenge Lucy, the girl he loves, will he hunt down the vicious gangsters who hurt her? Will he take the law into his own electric hands and exterminate them from the South London housing projects where, by fear and violence, they rule?Not even his mental search engine can predict the shocking outcome of iBoy's actions.A WiFi, WTF thriller by YA master Kevin Brooks. Praise for iBOY
"Intelligent and fast-moving, cleverly shifts between comic-book thrills and touching realism." -The New York Times Book Review
*"A lean, suspenseful thriller. At once cutting edge sci-fi and moral fable." -Kirkus, starred review
*"Brooks is a master at revealing the unsteady fault line between good and evil." -Booklist, starred review
"Brilliant, harrowing, uplifting... with a passionate truth. If I were a producer, I'd option iBOY immediately. This is the big one. Bravo!" -The London Times Kevin Brooks is the groundbreaking author of the internationally acclaimed novels DAWN; BLACK RABBIT SUMMER; BEING; THE ROAD OF THE DEAD, a Mystery Writers of America "Edgar" nominee; CANDY; KISSING THE RAIN; LUCAS; and MARTYN PIG, which received England's Branford Boase Award for Best First Novel. Brooks lives in Yorkshire, England. Praise for iBOY
"Intelligent and fast-moving, cleverly shifts between comic-book thrills and touching realism." -The New York Times Book Review
*"A lean, suspenseful thriller. At once cutting edge sci-fi and moral fable." -Kirkus, starred review
*"Brooks is a master at revealing the unsteady fault line between good and evil." -Booklist, starred review
"Brilliant, harrowing, uplifting... with a passionate truth. If I were a producer, I'd option iBOY immediately. This is the big one. Bravo!" -The London Times

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