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My latest is QUANTUM NINJA. It’s two books in one. Think of it as the first in a series with Book 2 already included. It’s got a ninja fighting Nazis. What more could you want?
Each Jimmy Coates book is a self-contained thriller, so you can read them in any order, but if you DO read them in order there is of course a story arc than runs through the series. They’re for anyone aged about 9 and over.
World of Robots is a series of 4 short books. Each book takes the reading level on slightly, to help build up reading ability and confidence. They’re mainly for slightly younger readers, around 7 and over.
First in the action-thriller series. “Pure gold” - The Times. “Totally excellent adventure - a bit Bond, a bit Matrix and a lot of what you’ve never read before. Someone make this into a movie!” - Flipside Magazine.
"We've come for the boy."
A relentless chase across London. And he doesn’t know who he’s running from.
An identity built out of secrets. And the lies his parents told him.
A set of skills that keep him escaping. With potential he’ll never escape.
His instinct will save him. Or destroy him.
Book 2
On the run.
Nowhere to hide.
Nothing they won't do to eliminate him.
Jimmy's strange talents are going to be tested to their limits.
How do you survive when your enemy's greatest weapon is a boy just like you?
Book 3.
With his family torn apart and his life in danger from the British Secret Service, Jimmy seeks refuge in the USA. But running isn't good enough. His enemy will always find him.
They see everything.
They're in every shadow.
They're inside his head.
It's time to end the chase.
Book 4
One wrong choice deserves another. And another and another…
Shot down, stranded and assumed dead, Jimmy faces his greatest struggle yet.
His instinct will save him. Or destroy him.
Betrayal is explosive.
Book 5
The choice is simple. The decision is deadly.
Every instinct tells him to run.
But running is surrender. Escape is a trap.
And survival is the fight that could finish him.
When Jimmy Coates goes rogue, the only rule is rebellion.
Survive as their weapon. Or fall as himself.
Book 6
Power whispers.
Power commands.
Power can destroy without a sound.
It shapes nations.
It corrupts silently.
It consumes everything.
Jimmy can move faster than anyone.
He can out-fight anyone.
But every act of power carries a price.
Revenge, sabotage, survival…
Use his power.
Lose his humanity.
Book 7
The shadow of corruption is spreading.
It reaches further than power.
It runs deeper than fear.
The streets are fractured.
The city is breaking.
A nation tilts into chaos.
Jimmy stands in the centre of it all — hunted, tested, poisoned.
You can slip through blackout in the streets.
You can survive blackout in the people.
But how do you fight blackout in your blood?
Why is a ninja fighting the Nazis?
He’s supposed to be protecting Queen Elizabeth from assassins in the year 1601.
But the Queen is dead, killed by an enemy from another century. The consequences are here, now, the present day.
The wrong time. A deadly place.
The worst place for a ninja? No, that would be 1944, surrounded by fanatical Nazis.
He’s a ninja trapped by an accident of time, in an inescapable loop, again and again, always and forever, against the forces of quantum physics. And Nazis.
"Joe Craig packs suspense onto every page." (Kirkus)
A very short thriller.
Adaq and Maya are siblings - urban professionals with a unique set of thieving skills.
When Adaq lifts a package from his latest target he has no idea what he's getting into. Before he can blink, the target is lying dead on the ground and he is running for his life.
Alien invasion and extreme storms threaten the human race. Jay and Emma are fighting their way to the safety of a bunker. But it's too late. The Zorbs are coming. A short-story action-thriller.
Jed finds an ancient helmet embedded in the earth. The original owner wants it back - with time and space in the way. But this helmet was made for war and it's ready to fight again, through whoever puts it on. A short-story action-thriller.
Judd wants more from life than being a window cleaner, like his dad. On his last job, he looks through the wrong window and glimpses something he's not meant to see. A secret somebody is prepared to kill for. A short-story mystery.
Book 1. Jango and his grandpa bring in something unexpected from the robot ships that patrol the ocean - something that doesn’t belong in Jango’s world.
Book 2. Jango and Izza are trapped on a broken-down transporter ship during a storm when they find themselves facing down a wild beast. Can they make it off the ship alive?
Book 3. When more and more robots start to go wrong, Izza thinks she’s found the perfect way to fix them. Until one takes control in a way that nobody could have expected…
Book 4. Jango has no idea how much his life will change when a truck crashes into his warehouse and they’re left with some mysterious and very valuable cargo.