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.
What a book. Talk about explosive and down right good book. Gets to the nitty gritty about friendship, love, racism and what 1 boy will do to keep everything he holds dear to him.
Wondering if Malorie Blackman will do another novel in this explosive series. Worth a read if you have read her other books in the series.