iBoy (34 page)

Text copyright © 2010 by Kevin Brooks.

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First published in the United Kingdom in 2010 by Puffin Books, a division of Penguin UK, 80 Strand, London, WC2R 0RL

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Brooks, Kevin.

iBoy / Kevin Brooks. — 1st American ed.

p. cm.

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was an ordinary Londoner until an attack that caused fragments of an iPhone to be embedded in his brain, giving him incredible knowledge and power, but using that power against the gang that attacked him and a friend could have deadly consequences.

ISBN 978-0-545-31768-9

[1. Gangs—Fiction. 2. Violence—Fiction. 3. Internet—Fiction. 4. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 5. London (England)—Fiction. 6. England—Fiction. 7. Science fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.B7965Ibo 2011[Fic]—dc22

2010054240

eISBN 978-0-545-38815-3

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