Product Description

Everyone assumes the bomb that killed Callie Rose's grandmother was the work of a nought terrorist. But Callie Rose knows the truth - and her fear of the past leaves her afraid for her future. Her boyfriend Tobey is worried about his own future. A nought boy at an exclusive school Tobey hopes to keep out of trouble, go to university, get a good job and leave the dangerous streets of his childhood behind. But Tobey is discovering that he can't keep clinging to some kind of no-man's land while the neighbourhood around him is carved up by rival gangs. Then he is offered the chance to earn some ready money just making a few 'deliveries'. He doesn't want a part of that world, the world of gangs. But maybe he could get away with it, just this once ...He little realizes how his decision will bring violence down on both himself and Callie and just how far he will go in fighting back...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35506 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 448 pages

From the Inside Flap
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.

From the Back Cover
Praise for Malorie Blackman’s
Noughts & Crosses sequence

‘Intelligent, emotional and imaginatively wicked’ Benjamin Zephaniah

NOUGHTS & CROSSES
‘Flawlessly paced’ The Times

KNIFE EDGE
‘Relentless in its pace and power’ Guardian

CHECKMATE
‘Another emotional hard-hitter’ Sunday Times

About the Author
MALORIE BLACKMAN is acknowledged as one of today's most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. She has won many awards for her books for the Random House list, including the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award - Malorie is the only author to have won this award twice -and the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award in 1994. Her work has also appeared on screen, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV serial. In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children's books.

Customer Reviews

Malorie does it again!
For all Malorie Blackman fans out there this certainly exceeds all expectations, a review does it no justice!
The reader is bought on Callie and Tobeys journey one which you don't want to end, but like all things it must.
Your left realing and trying to guess what happens next but like all good authors Blackman continuees to push boundaires and surprise the reader.
Although beautifully finished I'm hoping this isn't the last, say it isn't so!

Amazing, Again
I have wanted there to be a further book in the Noughts and Crosses saga since I finished Checkmate. I always wanted to know for sure Callie and Toby were going to be together.

This book picks up a few weeks after the ending of Checkmate and follows Toby and Callie through some tough times. Having had nothing from Toby's persective before, it was really interesting learning more about him and finding things about him I wouldn't have guessed from Callie's view of him in Checkmate. As with the pervious books, you are really drawn in to the characters world and feel the ups and downs with them, understanding how they end up in the bad situations they do. Most of this book is from Toby's persective as you see him stuggling to accept that he's still seen as lower class and has no money for the things he wants (like college) because of it. The effects that has on his relationship with Callie, and most importantly how he views himself at the end of it all.

Really heartfelt, lots of twists and turns. Places you wouldn't expect it to go, yet is completely believeable. Despite being set in an alteritive world most of it is still possible, and present, in our world. Still makes you stop and think about things as the previous books have done without stopping it from being a great read. Highly recommend the whole series to anyone, teens and adults alike, as I think there is a lot that can be learned from them. Great book.

AWESOME SEQUAL
Malorie has done it again. Double Cross has so many twists and turns in it's plot line, it's a superb read. One Note. Don't read this if you have work tomorrow, i was up til 4 am reading this...