Double Cross: Book 4 - Couverture souple

Blackman, Malorie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0385615523 ISBN 13 : 9780385615525

Editeur : Doubleday Childrens, 2008

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Just this once... Please let me get away with it just this once . . .

A bomb blast in a hotel has killed Callie Rose's grandmother - and everyone assumes a nought terrorist was to blame. For noughts are still using extreme violence in their fight for equality with the darker-skinned Crosses.

But Callie Rose knows the truth - knows who really made that bomb. And as the guilt tears her apart, a fear of the past leaves her afraid for her future.

Her boyfriend Tobey is struggling with his own demons. A nought boy at an exclusive school, Tobey is discovering that he can't keep clinging to some kind of no-man's land while the streets around him are carved up by rival gangs. Offered the chance through a mate to earn some ready money - just for making a few 'deliveries' - Tobey knows he faces a crossroads in his life.

He doesn't want a part of that world. But - just once - would it hurt to say 'yes' ...?

He little realizes how that one small decision can bring the violence down on both himself and Callie . . .

Explosively page-turning, dramatic and full of relevance for our world today, Double Cross is Malorie Blackman's fourth novel in the award-winning Noughts & Crosses sequence.

Revue de presse :

"Few writers can sustain a plot as well as Malorie Blackman" (Sunday Telegraph)

"The danger of being sucked into and destroyed by this violent world is brilliantly handled by Blackman . . . Blackman hangs an old story on a modern frame with terrific resonance" (Inis)

"Blackman gets people, especially young adults, in all their tentativeness, determination and energy. She gets humanity as a whole, too. Most of all she writes a stonking good story" (Carousel)

"This is a highly intelligent thriller with important things to say, and once again the distance between Blackman's imagined world and present-day inner city is beautifully judged. It deserves, and will find, a wide teenage readership" (The School Librarian)

"It fizzes with strong emotion and grips with its authenticity, a highly-skilled piece of writing by a writer with all the right instincts . . . Gutsy, spot-on and relevant . . . and shocking too. A great read" (Phil Hewitt Chichester Observer)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Doubleday Childrens
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0385615523
• ISBN 13: 9780385615525
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448