The Game by Mandasue Heller - ISBN: 9780340735077
Paperback
Sassy teen’s survival turns deadly when she falls for a criminal.

The Game

A hard-hitting thriller that will have you hooked

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  • Paperback

    432 pages

  • Release Date

    11 August 2005

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Summary

When Mary’s mother throws her out, the sassy teenager soon learns how tough life can be. Her new friend Lynne is older, more sophisticated. She has a taste for cocaine and isn’t above walking the streets for extra cash to pay for it.

Mary sticks to a straighter path, until the night Lynne brings Ali and Raiz back to their flat. The women don’t know that their sexy new friends are small-time criminals, desperate for alibis for a drug-dealer’s murder. All too soon, Mary is in more troub…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780340735077
ISBN-10:0340735074
Author:Mandasue Heller
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Orion Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:432
Release Date:11 August 2005
Weight:235g
Dimensions:178mm x 110mm x 34mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

These gritty urban thrillers, with their hard-hitting contemporary themes, mark the American debut of a gifted British crime novelist.

‘Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel.’ [Martine Cole on FORGET ME NOT]

‘Cracking page-turner…a gritty compassionate account of life on the margins.’ [Manchester Evening News on FORGET ME NOT]

‘Gripping…powerful writing.’ [Scotland on Sunday on FORGET ME NOT]

‘Alarming and beguiling…curiously exhilarating.’ [Scotsman on THE FRONT]

About The Author

Mandasue Heller

Mandasue was born in Cheshire and moved to Manchester in 1982. She spent ten years living in the notorious Hulme Crescents which have since become the background to her novels.

Not only is she a talented writer, but she has also sung in cabaret and rock groups, seventies soul cover bands and blues jam bands.

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