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The superb follow-up to Eoin Colfer s highly acclaimed PLUGGED, written with the warmth and wit of his Artemis Fowl series.Dan McEvoy doesn t set out to get into violent confrontations with New Jersey s gangster overlords but he s long since found that once you re on their radar, there s only one way to slip off it. So he s learned his own way to fight back, aiming to outwit rather than kill unless he really has no choice. But when Dan s glam step-gran Edit shows up on the hunt for his dishevelled aunt Evelyn, it quickly becomes clear that family can provide the deadliest threat of all. In a city of gun-happy criminals, bent cops and a tough-talking woman detective whose inspires terror and lust in equal measure, Dan may just have reached the point where sharp wit won t cut the mustard. But can he play the heavies at their own game?