Author: Frame, Matt
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 01/01/1800 by Biddles Books in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 314 pages
 
Douglas Blouse has always been a bit of a loner, but never in his seventeen years has he been truly alone....
 
....until now.
 
Fatherless since the departure of his dad for a woman he met on a game show and without a friend since the untimely death of his best mate, it now seems that Douglas can add his mother to this short but painful list.
 
Angered and abandoned, when Douglas goes off the rail it's bad. But when he goes on them it's worse. And when he decides to take a pair of unwitting hostages along for the ride it's not just his own life he's putting on the line.
 
It's a decision that will find him at the mercy of a community far beyond breaking point and hell bent on revenge. And on the village's grandest day of them all they are determined to show Douglas that their bite is worse than their bark. 
 
Is it going to be a fete worse than death? Or does DOuglas have a guardian angel?