Graham Mcnamee Acceleration Book Report

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Book Report Quarter 1: Acceleration Graham McNamee is the author of Acceleration, and my book is library recommended. My book doesn’t have a sequel or prequel. The setting of book is the present. The place is in Toronto. The conflict is person vs person because Duncan is trying to find a killer because Duncan found a book that had all of the killers plans and ways of attack. In this book there were lots of characters. The main character is Duncan. Duncan works at a lost and found place in downtown Toronto. He always finds things that are out of the ordinary at the lost and found. He found a diary at the lost and found that he thought was unusual. The diary had details on a killers plans. The killer was seeking people right in front of everyone but no one noticed. So Duncan wanted to find …show more content…
He is going to try to track down the killer. According to the killers book the attacks would either be on the subway or right after or before it leaves the station. Duncan goes on the subway but unexpectedly see the girl descried in the killers book. What he does is he follows her to her house. There is still one question on his mind, how is she still alive? He realizes that all of these are plans for the future they haven’t happened yet. A book he found said a killer is a killer from day one. The killer might start out small but then will progress to even worse things. The FBI agent calls this acceleration. Which can lead us to believe that this book is called acceleration for this reason. Next he finds the killer so he follows the killer to the subway station. When the killer found out that he was following him, it leads him to a getting in a fight with the killer. The last scene they were at a railroad. Then a train hit both of them and only Duncan survived but the killer

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