by Michael R. Fletcher
Griffin, a junior Investigations agent, is tasked with shutting illegal crèches that turn children into trained combatants, and the plot moves as a tight near‑future procedural with escalating stakes. Its strength is steady forward momentum and concrete set-pieces—raids, interrogations, and institutional unmasking—that keep pages turning. Limitations: the tone remains bleak, scenes involving coerced children recur, and several supporting figures stay underdeveloped, so readers seeking emotional uplift or deep psychological probing may feel shortchanged.
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The children are the future.And someone is turning them into highly trained killing machines.Straight out of school, Griffin, a junior Investigations agent for the North American Trade Union, is put on the case: Find and close the illegal crèches. No one expects him to succeed, Griffin least of all. Installed in a combat chassis Abdul, a depressed ...
Difficulty:hard
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