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Summary
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The beginning of a fantastic new action / adventure series from a twenty-year-old author who knows how to thrill - now in paperback!
Meet a 16-year-old superhuman: Agent Six of Hearts. He's the strongest, most effective agent in the Deck, a team of special agents fighting to uphold justice in a completely corrupt world. Six would be invincible if not for a deadly secret. He is the product of an illegal experiment by the Lab - a ruthless division of the corporation that controls his world. When the Deck begins to investigate the Lab, Six walks a tightrope between his two worlds, trying to keep his origin a secret.
Author Notes
Jack Heath is the award-winning author of six action-packed thrillers for young adults. He started writing his first novel, The Lab, at age 13. He lives in Australia. Visit him online at jackheath.com.au.
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 6 Up-In a time far into the future in a city isolated from the rest of the world, ChaoSonic controls all of the residents. But, there is one group that refuses to stay under its thumb-the Deck. It has a secret weapon in the fight against the enemy-Agent Six of Hearts. He is like no other human ever seen; in fact, he isn't totally human. Created through insidious and illegal experiments by the Lab, a division of ChaoSonic, he is a clone made up of human DNA, cheetah muscle, bloodhound nose, shark skin, elephant brain, and peregrine bones and eyes. He's the best agent ever to work for the Deck, helping to thwart the organization that created him 16 years earlier. He escaped the Lab when he was a baby and has stayed out of sight ever since. Only his boss, the King of Hearts, knows his secret. Then he is captured by ChaoSonic operatives. Yet, one of them is different from the rest. In Kyntak, Six sees another boy whose past is the same as his own. Can he trust him? Can the experimentation, torture, and cloning at the Lab ever be stopped? Fans of Anthony Horowitz's "Alex Rider" (Philomel) or James Patterson's "Maximum Ride" (Little, Brown) series will be hooked on this novel. An action-packed, suspense-filled story.-Traci Glass, Eugene Public Library, OR (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
This fast-paced, unsubtle debut novel is the first in a new series featuring teenage superhero Agent Six of Hearts. Six lives in a futuristic world of smog, fog and almost total anarchy. All that stands between the remaining population and a corrupt government is The Deck, an underground vigilante group fighting to protect basic human rights. Six goes from one mission to the next, constantly on the alert for danger, treading a narrow path between duty and moral choice. Engineered instead of born, designed to be the ultimate assassin, Six doesn't consider himself human and knows he has no soul. His rigid life turns upside down when he meets Kyntakanother engineered human facsimile from the same genome. But while they are identical in every way, Kyntak believes himself to be the ultimate human. Suddenly, Six is no longer unique, no longer aloneand no longer sure of who or what he is. A rock-'em, sock-'em thrill ride that has only just begun, this series is sure to find an audience with action-adventure fans. (Science fiction. 12 up) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Even though it was written when the author was in high school, this action-packed page-turner features steady pacing, taut prose, and even a little character development. In a polluted world reduced to a single walled island of nine billion people, teenage Agent Six of Hearts belongs to a secret organization called The Deck that battles the excesses of ChaoSonic, the corporation that controls everything. The product of a mysterious laboratory where bird, shark, and even plant genes were added to his DNA, Agent Six has superhuman abilities and considers himself a machine until, that is, he meets a laughing, reckless fellow experiment with similar powers who prods him into accepting his humanity. This personal progress is accomplished amidst a barrage of video game-style spy stuff, battles, rescues, car chases, explosions, escapes, and surprisingly well-oiled wheels within wheels. A strong start; stay tuned for sequels.--Peters, John Copyright 2008 Booklist