Présentation de l'éditeur
Everyone assumes the bomb that killed Callie Rose's grandmother was the work of a nought terrorist. But Callie Rose knows the truth - and her fear of the past leaves her afraid for her future.
Her boyfriend Tobey is worried about his own future. A nought boy at an exclusive school, Tobey hopes to keep out of trouble, go to university, get a good job and leave the dangerous streets of his childhood behind. But Tobey is discovering that he can't keep clinging to some kind of no-man's land while the neighbourhood around him is carved up by rival gangs. Then he is offered the chance to earn some ready money just making a few 'deliveries'. He doesn't want a part of that world, the world of gangs. But maybe he could get away with it, just this once . . .
He little realizes how his decison will bring violence down on both himself and Callie and just how far he will go in fighting back....
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.
Biographie de l'auteur
MALORIE BLACKMAN is acknowledged as one of today's most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. She has won many awards for her books for the Random House list, including the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award - Malorie is the only author to have won this award twice -and the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award in 1994. Her work has also appeared on screen, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV serial. In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children's books.
