TOR: Assassin Hunter: Volume one (Tor Trilogy) - Hardcover

Buttons, Billy Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0955512999 ISBN 13: 9780955512995

Publisher: The Wishing Shelf Press, 2012

Synopsis

If you hunt assassins, trust nobody.

The year is 1870. Major Tor, a mercenary and deadly sniper, is called from battle and ordered to stop Locust, a SWARM assassin who is planning to murder the King of Sweden.

From the rubble and watery craters of France to the shadowy corridors and tunnels of Stockholm's old castle, Tor must discover who the assassin is and stop his, or her plan to throw a country into a barbaric and bloody war.

Accompany him if you dare into a world of bayonets and bullets, where the enemy's sword is forever chasing his shadow.

But remember this, when you hunt assassins...
...trust nobody.

Billy Bob Buttons spine a chilling tale of betrayal and trickery.

TOR Assassin Hunter is up there with Harry Potter. A wonderful book!
Simon, 14

Try to work out who the assassin is. It will drive you nuts.The best book on my shelf.
Peter, 13

A book for anybody who enjoys a riddle.
Stephen, 11

TOR Wolf Rising is on my Christmas wish list.
Steven, 10

Hidden under my bedsheets, I did not shut Tor Assassin Hunter till 11 o'clock. Superb! I even turned off my computer to finish it.
Abhirupa, 13

So much fun! The only problem with Tor Assassin Hunter is it ended.
Cindy, 13

Starts with a BANG! Ends with a BANG! A fantastic story full of swords and pistols.
Moorti, 12

(Original reviews with publisher)

About this title

About the Author

Billy Bob Buttons, a young talented author, is a secondary school English teacher and also a pilot. A finalist in The Rubery Book Awards 2011 and a runner up the prestigious UK People's Book Prize in 2012, children from all over the world have enjoyed his novels for almost a decade. Born in the City of York, he and his Swedish wife, Therese, now live in London and Stockholm. Their twin girls, Rebecca and Beatrix, and tiny baby, Albert, inspire Billy Bob every day to pick up a pen and work on his books. When not writing, he enjoys flying, a spot of tennis and playing 'MONSTER!' with his three children. He is the author of Rubery Book Award finalist 'Felicity Brady and the Wizard's Bookshop' and the much-loved 'The Gullfoss Legends'. 'TOR Assassin Hunter', his seventh children's novel was a runner-up in the prestigious UK People's Book Prize. His next book, 'TOR Wolf Rising', will be out this September.

From the Back Cover

With the cavalrymen only two hundred feet away, I look up to the early morning sky. The crows circle us keen to enjoy our soft flesh. I hate them. I want to lift my rifle and shoot them but I dare not squander a bullet.

A hundred and fifty feet.

An unstoppable tidal wave of sharpened steel and guts...

A hundred feet.

...snarls and wild eyes, they jump the burning wagon...

Fifty feet.

I jam the butt of my musket to my shoulder. `FIRE!' I holler.

My name is Tor. Just, Tor. I love crackers with chévre cheese and red wine but only if it's room temperature. I hate turnips, I'm claustrophobic and I'm allergic to cats...

...oh, and I'm a major and a mercenary temporarily in the employ of the French army, my job...to shoot Germans.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Wishing Shelf Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0955512999
• ISBN 13: 9780955512995
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 206