![]() ![]() Readers who like their thrillers brutally realistic will find much to enjoy. This book is about a 14 year old boy who lives on the streets of the UK. series: Playing Dead, Closing In, Breaking Free, Running Scared, Fighting Back, Mixing It and Cutting Loose.Other OUP titles by Tim Bowler: Midget. Why should I?”) carries the novel, even as the plot frustratingly ends with a cliffhanger. Blade Playing Dead is written by the author Tim Bowler. ) 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. ![]() This book is about a 14 year old boy who lives on the streets of the UK. 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). Arav Patel Blade Playing Dead is written by the author Tim Bowler. 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). Material type: materialTypeLabel BookPublisher: Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, c2008Description. 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. ![]()
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