Lost Bullet Characters

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The second book of the Traces series, Lost Bullet by Malcolm Ross, focuses the young forensic investigator Luke Harding, who is thrown into a case that would soon become bigger than he ever imagined. Luke is now living in the futuristic, but corrupt city of London, to pursue his new job as a forensic investigator. He soon finds himself put on a case of a doctor's murder. However what seems to be a random killing eventually starts to evolve. Three shootings that have resulted in five dead innocent people occur, and with the help of MALC, an advanced robot sent to help Luke with evidence, he realizes that they were all committed by the same killer. This new piece of information sends Luke out on an extensive mission to find out why one person would almost kill one white boy, three doctors, and three members of the pairing committee (a panel of older citizens set to arrange marriages for …show more content…

This change may be eternal of sudden. The protagonist of the story, Luke Harding, is a dynamic character. ¨They almost got a member of the public shot! And they certainly got a very valuable mobile incapacitated.¨ This quote said by one of Luke's friends from when he was in school, caused an internal change in Luke. He decided that he should not involve MALC and any other friend in such an unorthodox case, especially if it could result in death. This quote had an effect on the plot because it was the start of the falling action, that would eventually lead to the resolution. It had an effect on the reader, because it led them into a satisfying ending to the story. Meanwhile, the book also had a clear effect on Luke, because the event changed his way of thinking. Instead of still thinking that it was right to do anything to catch the murderer, he decided to have boundaries on what he would do. Although Luke was one of the few dynamic characters in the story, Luke was also a round

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