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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dear Reader …
  4. Also by Robert Muchamore
  5. PART ONE
  6. Walter J Freeman Adolescent Mental Health Unit – East Grinstead, UK
  7. ONE
  8. TWO
  9. THREE
  10. FOUR
  11. FIVE
  12. SIX
  13. SEVEN
  14. EIGHT
  15. NINE
  16. TEN
  17. ELEVEN
  18. PART TWO
  19. TWELVE
  20. THIRTEEN
  21. FOURTEEN
  22. FIFTEEN
  23. SIXTEEN
  24. SEVENTEEN
  25. EIGHTEEN
  26. NINETEEN
  27. TWENTY
  28. TWENTY-ONE
  29. TWENTY-TWO
  30. TWENTY-THREE
  31. TWENTY-FOUR
  32. TWENTY-FIVE
  33. TWENTY-SIX
  34. TWENTY-SEVEN
  35. TWENTY-EIGHT
  36. TWENTY-NINE
  37. THIRTY
  38. THIRTY-ONE
  39. THIRTY-TWO
  40. THIRTY-THREE
  41. THIRTY-FOUR
  42. THIRTY-FIVE
  43. THIRTY-SIX
  44. THIRTY-SEVEN
  45. THIRTY-EIGHT
  46. PART THREE
  47. Walter J. Freeman Adolescent Mental Health Unit – East Grinstead, UK
  48. THIRTY-NINE
  49. FORTY
  50. FORTY-ONE
  51. FORTY-TWO
  52. FORTY-THREE
  53. FORTY-FOUR
  54. FORTY-FIVE
  55. FORTY-SIX
  56. FORTY-SEVEN
  57. FORTY-EIGHT
  58. FORTY-NINE
  59. FIFTY
  60. FIFTY-ONE
  61. FIFTY-TWO
  62. FIFTY-THREE
  63. FIFTY-FOUR
  64. PART FOUR
  65. FIFTY-FIVE
  66. FIFTY-SIX
  67. FIFTY-SEVEN
  68. FIFTY-EIGHT
  69. FIFTY-NINE
  70. SIXTY
  71. SIXTY-ONE
  72. SIXTY-TWO
  73. SIXTY-THREE
  74. SIXTY-FOUR
  75. SIXTY-FIVE
  76. SIXTY-SIX
  77. SIXTY-SEVEN
  78. SIXTY-EIGHT
  79. SIXTY-NINE
  80. SEVENTY
  81. SEVENTY-ONE
  82. SEVENTY-TWO
  83. SEVENTY-THREE
  84. EPILOGUE
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  86. Have you read KILLER T?
  87. 1 SLASHED RUBBER
  88. 2 NOT HARRY POTTER

Nerves made him fear his mother, but she moved with the back of her sandals slapping her heels. This was the muscular gait of one of the twins. Probably Kehinde, who’d start his day with a splash in the pool if he woke early enough.

It was still before seven when Julius got back to his room. He felt miserable and vengeful over what had happened to Duke. But it was the sense of powerlessness that had quashed his spirit. He felt stronger after standing up to his mother to a point where she’d almost seemed afraid, and for stealing the SIM cards and money.

Julius locked his bathroom door and sat on the lid of his toilet, unrolling notes and counting. It added up to three hundred thousand naira and nine hundred dollars. It would be tough to get away from bodyguards and buy a phone in a shop, but someone at school was sure to have an old phone to sell. And the rest was enough for Duke to get his teeth fixed by a proper dentist – if he could find a way to get him the money.

TWENTY-SIX

Remember that time when I was fourteen and got arrested in a riot at the town hall and Dad was so drunk he puked all over Auntie Michelle’s car on the way to pick me up at the police station?

They’d laugh some day, but judging by Michelle’s expression when she dropped John and Georgia home at a quarter past three in the morning, it was best not mentioned in front of her for a couple of decades …

When Georgia woke, her world seemed broken. Once it was Mum, Dad and Sophie. Uniform ironed, breakfast on the table, Mum honking if you weren’t buckled in the back seat of her Honda Jazz by eight forty. Now, Georgia was the only one awake. She checked her dad, face down on his duvet, long whistling snores and trousers bunched around the ankles.

It was already nine and it felt bizarre having nobody to make her go to school. Old Georgia wanted to scramble around and get to class in time for second lesson. New Georgia would have happily spent the day pottering about in Kermit the Frog pyjama bottoms, except she couldn’t face her dad.

She could hack a telling-off, loss of pocket money, getting grounded, or whatever. But seeing Dad all hungover and depressed about losing his company felt way worse.