Readers who like their thrillers brutally realistic will find much to enjoy. Why should I?”) carries the novel, even as the plot frustratingly ends with a cliffhanger. ) imbues Blade with a voice that throws around slang (“porker,” “gobbo,” “Bigeyes”) without needing to stop to explain it, and his reader-directed narration (“I don't trust you one little bit. He lives on his own, by his wits - you have to when youre on the run from your past. There's little joy in Blade's world: characters steal, cheat, abuse drugs and kill, and to Blade, little of this bleakness is out of the ordinary (the first chapter reveals that he's lived this way since at least the age of seven). Following the dramatic events of the first Blade book, Playing Dead, Blade is on the run again with Becky. Along the way, he ends up protecting a toddler named Jaz and the girl's teen mother, Becky (she, in turn, inspires memories of Blade's long-dead love). After Blade suffers a beating by a local gang, an offer of help from a Good Samaritan goes awry and he finds himself on the run from a group of mysterious armed men. Bowler delivers an intense, gripping novel that introduces Blade, a 14-year-old British boy with a mysterious past, who is living on the streets. Dead Blade 1 Tim Bowler and numerous book collections from fictions to scientific research in any way.
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