Not only does this kid find himself grappling with the stunning advances of modern life, he's thrown straight into an undercover world of high-tech mastery even 21st residents would struggle to comprehend.īut no matter - Riley is just thrilled to have escaped Garrick, his evil lord and master, who had been training Riley to kill the rich and the innocent, including the very man whose astonishing time machine drags Riley into the future.Īlas, Garrick, the personification of pure evil, also manages to infiltrate the barrier of time, and is soon hot on the tail of his young charge, who has been snaffled and protected by FBI special agent Chevie Savano, a gutsy young girl with her own inadequacies and frailties to overcome. He is determined to track Riley down and use the timekey in Chevie’s possession to make his way back to Victorian London where he can literally change the world.When Riley, an orphan from the Victorian era, suddenly finds himself transported to the 21st Century, he can't even imagine the surprises in store. Garrick is now not only evil, but he also possesses all of the scientist’s knowledge. Together Riley and Chevie must evade Garrick, who has been fundamentally altered by his trip through the wormhole. In modern London, Riley is helped by Chevron Savano, a nineteen-year-old FBI agent sent to London as punishment after a disastrous undercover, anti-terrorist operation in Los Angeles. Riley is saved from having to commit the grisly act when the intended victim turns out to be a scientist from the future, part of the FBI’s Witness Anonymous Relocation Program (WARP) Riley is unwittingly transported via wormhole to modern day London, followed closely by Garrick.
On one such escapade, Garrick brings his reluctant apprentice along and urges him to commit his first killing.
Riley, a teen orphan boy living in Victorian London, has had the misfortune of being apprenticed to Albert Garrick, an illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and now uses his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims’ dwellings.
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