Craig, Joe
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1981- ) UK singer/songwriter and author of the Jimmy Coates sequence, beginning with Jimmy Coates: Killer (2005; vt Jimmy Coates: Assassin? 2005), a Young Adult novel of some interest for the intensity of its depiction of young Jimmy's dilemma: Genetically Engineered to unfold into a Superman assassin at the age of 18, he finds himself gripped by these powers several years too young. His rite of passage towards adulthood is therefore doubly fraught: internally, he is at odds with "himself"; externally, he could be fatal to others. [JC]
Joe Craig
born London: 31 December 1981
works
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Jimmy Coates
- Jimmy Coates: Killer (London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2005) [Jimmy Coates: pb/]
- Jimmy Coates: Assassin? (New York: HarperCollins, 2005) [vt of the above: Jimmy Coates: pb/David Frankland]
- Jimmy Coates: Target (London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2006) [Jimmy Coates: pb/]
- Jimmy Coates: Sabotage (London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2007) [Jimmy Coates: pb/]
- Jimmy Coates: Revenge (London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2007) [Jimmy Coates: pb/]
- Jimmy Coates: Survival (London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2008) [Jimmy Coates: pb/]
- Jimmy Coates: Power (London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2008) [Jimmy Coates: pb/]
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