{"product_id":"dead-straight-line","title":"Dead Straight Line","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRazor sharp, fast moving, and impossible to put down... This is Malcolm Duffy at the top of his game.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e’ – Brian Conaghan, author of \u003ci\u003eTreacle Town\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo unlikely worlds collide as prize-winning Malcolm Duffy explores the life-changing repercussions of a single action in a game gone wrong.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSixteen-year-old Rory is a rule-breaker, a risk taker, a maverick. As a kick he comes up with a game called Dead Straight Line. The idea is simple – wherever you happen to be, you’ve got to get home in a dead straight line. Across the back gardens of stranger’s houses, locked parks, trespassing on private property – whatever it takes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne day, Rory pressures his friend Eliot into playing, resulting in a serious accident. Shunned by friends and facing pressure from his furious parents, Rory becomes even more angry and disruptive. When his school suggests helping out a care home, he’s unimpressed. But paired up with Tanker, an eighty-year-old Geordie military veteran, who fought in the Falklands War, things slowly begin to change. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom seeking thrills to finding friends, choosing the right path in life is never a dead straight line. But there is always a way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e** PRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eDEAD STRAIGHT LINE **\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003ci\u003e[An] empathetic, powerful, important novel for young men, one that should not be missed.\u003c\/i\u003e’ – Keith Gray, author of \u003ci\u003eOstrich Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eI'm a sucker for a funny narrator dealing with bleak stuff! Laughed loads and cried for two whole chapters.\u003c\/i\u003e’ – Patrice Lawrence \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eThe best YA novel I have read in the past 10 years.\u003c\/i\u003e’– Tom Tolkien, \u003ci\u003eThe School Reading List\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003ci\u003e[A] Compelling novel for today's teens about taking risks, peer pressure and paying for our mistakes.\u003c\/i\u003e’  –Tamsin Winter, author of \u003ci\u003eI Dare You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56399490515288,"sku":"9781035919277","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781035919277.jpg?v=1779516960","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/dead-straight-line","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}