Martin’s first-person narration supplies much of the book’s power. But he also makes friends with a kind English teacher and catches the eye of Vicky, a smart, pretty and outgoing Bluford student. At his new school, the still-grieving Martin quickly makes enemies and gets into trouble. But Martin’s mother, determined not to lose another son, moves him to another neighborhood-the fictional town of Bluford, where he attends the racially diverse Bluford High. When a stray bullet kills Martin’s adored 8-year-old brother, Huero, Martin seems to be heading into a life of crime. He’s disaffected, fatherless and increasingly drawn into the orbit of the older, rougher Frankie. In a large Southern California city, 16-year-old Martin Luna hangs out on the fringes of gang life. In the ninth book in the Bluford young-adult series, a young Latino man walks away from violence-but at great personal cost. The final sections fall apart after Clayton’s poorly handled death, and the denouement is more bizarre than chilling.Īn intriguing horror story with a disappointing finale. That said, the scenes with Clayton’s family have a charming naturalism, and Buzzy, the town oddball who searches for coins, bits of metal and other ephemera, is reminiscent of characters in Stephen King’s work. Clayton’s illness is engagingly portrayed, and the military research scenes are effective, but the assassin’s weak story undermines the narrative’s urgency. The story threads involving the assassin and the scientist don’t work well together. A blood bath follows, but not a wholly convincing one many of the characters suffer a terrible fate, and the plot’s logic falls victim as well.
Clayton is mistaken for the hit man and killed, and the results of his medical treatment have horrifying consequences: He rises from the dead. Meanwhile, an assassin with a strong resemblance to Clayton is in Reeseport and on the run. His co-workers have implanted the same technology into the lab’s monkeys, and while Clayton recuperates, links between the virus and the pacemakers’ functionality begin to emerge. After being infected by a secret military virus that nearly kills him, soldier and research scientist Ross Clayton is implanted with an experimental pacemaker. In the quaint, Mayberry-like town of Reeseport, military scientists pursue research in a classified lab. Bradley’s ( Relic of the Damned: Carpe Noctem, 2012, etc.) latest horror novel centers on scientific inquiry gone awry.
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