Fifth title and a stunning new look for Jimmy Coates - part boy, part weapon, totally deadly! Can Jimmy save his family AND prevent a war? The choice is simple. The decision is deadly. Key title / Brand-new action packed spills and thrills from Joe Craig in his fifth Jimmy Coates adventure, perfect for readers who love Anthony Horowitz and Robert Muchamore / Major consumer and retail marketing campaign to continue to raise awareness of the Jimmy Coates brand including backlist promotions to bring new fans to series / Promoted to the Jimmy Coates community on MySpace / Competitions and giveaways across all kids websites and portals / Bespoke frontlist and backlist promotions across all high street and mass market retailers / Competition: Horowitz's Alex Rider novels, Muchamore's Cherub novels, Charlie Higson's Young Bond
Joe studied Philosophy at Cambridge University (Emmanuel College),
graduating in 2002. While there he wrote and performed with the
Cambridge Footlights and co-hosted a show on the University radio
station.
As well as being the author of the Jimmy Coates action-adventure
series, he is a songwriter/musician. He has performed at various
venues in London, and made a self-produced CD of his pop material.
(You can hear the songs through his website.)
In 1999 he won Most Promising Young Writer at the Vivian Ellis
Prize for his first musical. In 2002 he wrote the music for 'Told
You So', which ran in London over Christmas. It was a family show
adapting Aesop's fables, co-written with acclaimed playwright John
Finnemore. He has also written the music to several other shows
which have run on the London and Edinburgh fringe.
He coaches cricket at his local club (Brondesbury CC), where he
runs the Under Elevens. They came second in the league this year -
and had a lot of fun along the way.
His other interests are - music, watching films, reading,
collecting frogs, eating lunch, cooking, Aesop's fables, dancing
Tango, playing poker, painting, eating Haribo Sweets, playing
five-a-side football and cricket.
Praise for Jimmy Coates: Revenge "Boys love this stuff, and so do girls. Jimmy is a pint-sized verision of Robocop or Terminator! Like Anthony Horowitz's splendid fantasies, [these novels] tap into almost everything a bolshy boy wants and feels. Immensely clever, immediately engaging, they will prepare a child for Orwell and Huxley." Amanda Craig, The Times "Fast-paced and intelligently written." The Bookseller "the sort of book to wow reluctant boy readers away from computer games and into the pages of a book." Books for Keeps "Joe Craig has produced another thrilling page-turner." Jewish Chronicle "A rollicking good spy romp." School House magazine. And for Jimmy Coates: Target "With cinematic skill, Craig unrolls a series of action-packed scenes, with a new crisis at every turn of the page. It's gripping, but not mindless" Angela Kilverstein Praise for Jimmy Coates: Killer "!a totally excellent adventure -- a lit bit Bond, a lit bit Matrix and a lot of what you've never read before. Someone make this into a movie!" Flipside "A gripping action-thriller that's packed with twists." Funday Times "[Joe Craig] has developed the sharp satirical edge that keeps the new generation of boys hooked on books. Which is, in itself, the act of a superhero." Amanda Craig, The Times "The perfect primer to the Bourne series by Robert Ludlum." VOYA "!By turns excitingly action-packed, believably sensible and character driven, and then refreshingly paranoid, this is a book I'd be happy to recommend to the kid in everyone." Vector
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