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Bezig met laden... Breakersdoor Doug Johnstone
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17-year-old Tyler lives in one of Edinburgh's most deprived areas. Coerced into robbing rich people's homes by his bullying older siblings, he's also trying to care for his little sister and his drug-addict mother. On a job, his brother stabs a homeowner and leaves her for dead - and the woman is the wife of Edinburgh's biggest crime lord, Deke Holt. With the police and the Holts closing in, and his shattered family in devastating danger, Tyler meets posh girl Flick in another stranger's house, and he thinks she may just be his salvation, unless he drags her down, too. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.92Literature English English fiction Modern Period 2000-LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.75)
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When people talk about Edinburgh they talk of the Royal Mile, the castle, Arthurs seat and the fringe every August. With all that beauty around, people tend to forget the other side, the forgotten, and the sink estates. Doug Johnson brings to life the forgotten and never mentioned side of Edinburgh, where life is hard, and it is dog eat dog.
Tyler has enough on his plate, seventeen, still at school, caring for his younger sister and his drink and drug ravaged mother. His elder brother Barry, and sister Kelly have bullied him and coerced him into robbing the houses of those richer than themselves. He could not say no to Barry, as he was handy with his fists, both he and Kelly carried the marks to prove it.
One night, both Barry and Kelly are high on cocaine, and it shows, when they pick a rather nice house, no alarm, no lights on and more importantly, detached. Things do not go well on the job, when Barry stabs the homeowner when she returns home. Out of guilt Tyler calls an ambulance for her, and this plays on his mind. What he did not realise that this job will turn into a living nightmare, Barry has stabbed the wife of Deke Holt the biggest crime lord in Edinburgh.
When Tyler hears who it is Barry stabbed, he bunks school and goes for a wander round the posher parts of Edinburgh, when after breaking into a house he meets Flick. Flick is the opposite of Tyler, private school, someone he finds it easy to talk too. Will she be his salvation, or will his family drag Flick down with the rest of them?
Doug Johnson delivers a beautiful, horrifying and off the scale thriller. There is no dragging the story out, over 200 pages, he delivers an engrossing thriller, which some cannot do at 400 pages.
Johnson reveals how some of the poorest live, and it is not a pretty sight, these the forgotten are trying the best they can. Unfortunately think that crime is the only way, along with the drugs to try and forget where you live and what your real situation is. At the same time the story is intense, while pulsating proving why he is not only one of Scotland’s but the UK’s top thriller writers.
Once you start Breakers you will want to finish in one sitting, and hope, that there is a better outcome for Tyler and Bean, but the only way to find out is to read their story. (