Made to Kill: A Ray Electromatic Mystery (Ray Electromatic Mysteries, 1)

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In Made to Kill, Adam Christopher presents us with a mashup of Raymond Chandler and Philip K Dick: the world's last robot (all the others were destroyed after they stole everyone's jobs) and his boss, a building-sized computer, who operate a private detective agency that's a front for an assassination business. Even when Nathan becomes "The Other," he doesn't exhibit the machismo that we have learned to love with Reacher. When a familiar-looking woman arrives at the Los Angeles offices of Raymond Electromatic-PI turned hit man and the world's last robot - he takes on the case of a missing movie star, and is soon plunged into a glittering world of 1960s Hollywood. Perfectly ordinary children are forced in a situation where, if they do not kill others, they themselves will die (excepting the Career Tributes).

At the start of the series, Sakura and Kiba are both five, with Kiba getting his first kill by ripping out an enemy's throat. The Quick and the Dead had The Lady, as a young girl, attempt to shoot a hanging rope in two to save her father, but she missed the rope and hit him square in the forehead instead. The historian Joseph Crespino explains, "In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its main character, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism. The prequel novel to Mary Skelter: Nightmares reveals that Blood Skelter was discovered after a tragedy in which a ten-year-old Red Riding Hood inadvertently caused a fellow Blood Maiden to go insane by splashing Marchen blood all over them, resulting in said Blood Maiden lashing out and Red Riding Hood instinctively impaling them with her freshly-gifted pair of person-sized scissors. At first they tried to limit it to alien enemies, but as the war wears on they're forced to break that vow and kill humans as well.

but have George Guidall or Richard Ferrone read just one chapter of whatever you are working on and you'll see the light. For Mark and his friends, surviving is difficult, and then an enemy arrives, infecting people with a highly contagious virus. your move, instigator (draw your weapon and hold your tongue) is set in an Alternate Universe where the Third Shinobi War continued for years past its canonical ending. Berserk: Both Casca and Guts had to kill people in self-defense at a very young age as part of the Backstory.

Well, partly the collars compelled non-cooperation because only one person could live when the time was up, if I remember correctly. I'm really excited for all of you to read the prequel, something I planned even before finishing the very first book of The Maze Runner. In particular, Tina Sprout was forced to be an assassin sniper by Ayn Rand to kill Seitenshi, but has also shown hesitation on killing people.There was a point in the book where Nathan had a huge decision to make, in my opinion any decision he made would have been the right one. Each student is fitted with a collar which can be used to track and monitor students and explode if they tamper with it. When a familiar-looking woman arrives at the Los Angeles offices of Raymond Electromatic-PI turned hit man and the world's last robot - he takes on the case of a missing movie star, and is soon plunged into a glittering world of 1960s Hollywood: fame, fortune, and secrecy. Instead of a "quick and merciful death", Reader's Digest Condensed Books chose the book for reprinting in part, which gave it a wide readership immediately. The coaster could provide a painless, exciting and apparently euphoria-inducing way to kill people who, for whatever reason, are going to die sooner rather than later anyway.

In Velocity by Dean Koontz, 14-year-old Billy Wiles (later the protagonist of the book) has to kill his homicidally deranged father to protect himself and his wounded mother. Alec was still asleep in the bunk on the other side of the hut – all of four feet away – and snoring up a storm.Septimus Heap: In Queste, Septimus and Jenna are forced to throw the InHabited Toll-Man into the Abyss to escape from the Thing that is controlling his body. Day Break Illusion: Poor, poor Akari Taiyou is a Genki Girl who just wants to be like her mom, and certainly has powers to do it. In Mary Skelter 2, this trope ends up Double Subverted: Otsuu rescues Little Mermaid from her predicament before Red Riding Hood arrives and thus prevents the original tragedy from happening, but it ultimately ends up creating an even worse timeline, so Otsuu and Little Mermaid revert things to the original timeline. As the lone employee of the Electromatic Detective Agency except for Ada, office gal and supercomputer, the constant voice in Ray s inner ear Ray prefers to stay out of sight.

Suzaku killed his father at age 12, but most notable would probably be Rolo Halliburton who was a very effective assassin thanks to being able to freeze people in place with his Geass. Equally, they may manage to get the drop on someone who is trying to murder a parent or other carer. They are released onto the island with instructions that only the sole survivor of the contest will be allowed to leave the island. The tone of reading allows you to focus on the story details and forget that you're actually being read to. It is mixed how detailed it is described, but melted faces, stomping a head till it pops, and various types of actual executions are common.Taken to a whole different extreme with The Witch from Mercury’s prologue, where Ericht Samaya—a four-year-old girl—operates Gundam Lfrith to get her and her mother Elnora out of an attack by the Benerit Group’s Dominicus Corps.