Chapters (90)
- Cover
- About the Author
- Praise for Malorie Blackman’s books
- Also available by Malorie Blackman for young adult readers
- Dedication
- Family Tree
- Epigraph
- NOW
- one. Tobey
- two. Libby
- Then
- three. Place Names
- four. Isabella Monroe
- five. Kellan Bruemann
- NOW
- six. Libby
- Daily Shouter Online
- Then
- seven. Patrix Ellerman
- eight. Tobey Durbridge
- nine. Circulating
- NOW
- ten. Troy
- Then
- eleven. Owen Dowd
- twelve. Eva Foxton
- thirteen. Tom Jeavons
- NOW
- Then
- fourteen. Sephy Ealing
- fifteen. The Night That Would Never End
- NOW
- sixteen. Sephy
- seventeen. Libby
- eighteen. Sephy
- nineteen. Tobey
- twenty. Sephy
- twenty-one. Libby
- twenty-two. Troy
- twenty-three. Libby
- twenty-four. Tobey
- twenty-five. Troy
- twenty-six. Callie
- twenty-seven. Tobey
- twenty-eight. Troy
- twenty-nine. Callie
- thirty. Sephy
- thirty-one. Libby
- thirty-two. Sephy
- thirty-three. Tobey
- thirty-four. Sephy
- thirty-five. Troy
- thirty-six. Callie
- thirty-seven. Tobey
- thirty-eight. Callie
- thirty-nine. Sephy
- forty. Tobey
- forty-one. Sephy
- forty-two. Troy
- forty-three. Callie
- forty-four. Sephy
- forty-five. Libby
- forty-six. Sephy
- forty-seven. Troy
- forty-eight. Tobey
- forty-nine. Sephy
- fifty. Libby
- fifty-one. Sephy
- fifty-two. Callie
- fifty-three. Tobey
- fifty-four. Sephy
- fifty-five. Troy
- fifty-six. Libby
- fifty-seven. Callie
- fifty-eight. Sephy
- fifty-nine. Tobey
- sixty. Callie
- sixty-one. Sephy
- sixty-two. Tobey
- sixty-three. Sephy
- sixty-four. Tobey
- sixty-five. Troy
- sixty-six. Callie
- THREE MONTHS LATER
- sixty-seven. Tobey
- sixty-eight. Troy
- sixty-nine. Callie
- seventy. Libby
- Acknowledgements
- THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING
‘Please don’t fade on me now, Troy Ealing,’ I pleaded. ‘You’re the one who said that while we’re still standing we’re still in the game. Did you lie?’
Slowly but surely, Troy’s glower morphed into a slight smile. ‘No, I didn’t lie – and you are rude.’
‘But right!’
Troy nodded. ‘But rude.’ He took another look around the car. ‘Maybe if we worked together and timed our movements we could kick out the back window, grille and all.’
I smiled. ‘I know we can. Let’s do it.’
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Synthetic Prop is responsible for a 62 per cent rise in all crimes committed in Albion
The National Public Health Authority (NPHA) stated that synthetic Prop use has resulted in a 62 per cent escalation in crime over the last nine months.
An NPHA spokeswoman noted that, ‘Accelerating Prop use has resulted in a rise in drug trafficking, county lines, “cuckooing”, robbery, domestic violence, assaults, abuse and murder. Over the last ten years, governments of all stripes have ignored calls to get a grip on the drug problem in Albion. They have stuck their fingers in their ears and sung la-la-la while various rehab and anti-drug agencies have tried to warn them of the looming crisis. The last government even cut funding to state-run rehab and anti-drug agencies, stating that they were not “cost-effective”.
’I know of one elderly tenant living alone who has been subject to “cuckooing”, where a group of drug traffickers took over his flat and ran part of their drugs operation from his home for over two years. He was threatened with knives and other violence should he go to the police or alert any housing officials to his plight.
‘I know of children as young as nine and ten who are being used to ferry drugs around the country as they’re much less likely to be stopped and searched by the police. Lives across all strata of society are being ruined. I hope the new government gets a grip and quick or we’ll be back here next year, and the year after that, discussing the breakdown in societal cohesion as a result of drugs and drug trafficking.’
According to a government spokesman, ‘The Prime Minister has made it his personal mission to bring those who seek to profit from Prop production, distribution and use to justice. Their days are numbered.’
fifty-one. Sephy