Fair Game

Alan Durant

Description

It's 2074. Football is only played on screen - and in prison. That's where Billy B learnt to play. Now he wants to play a real football match. But he's playing a dangerous game.

Informations

• Publié par: Badger Learning
• Date de parution: 15 janvier 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781781476628
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Titles in Teen Reads:
FAIR GAME
ALAN DURANT
HOME
TOMMY DONBAVAND
KIDNAP
TOMMY DONBAVAND
MAMA BARKFINGERS
CAVAN SCOTT
SITTING TARGET
JOHN TOWNSEND
THE HUNTED
CAVAN SCOTT
THE CORRIDOR
MARK WRIGHT
WORLD WITHOUT WORDS
JONNY ZUCKER
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Fair Game ISBN 978-1-78147-563-8 ISBN: 9781781476628 (Epub) ISBN: 9781781476635 (Mobi)
Text Alan Durant 2014 Complete work Badger Publishing Limited 2014
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any form or by any means mechanical, electronic, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher.
The right of Alan Durant to be identified as author of this Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Publisher: Susan Ross Senior Editor: Danny Pearson Copyeditor: Cheryl Lanyon Designer: Bigtop Design Ltd
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Penal Colony 156
Chapter 2 Bored
Chapter 3 Two Encounters
Chapter 4 Trials
Chapter 5 Back On 156
Chapter 6 Kick-Off
Chapter 7 Result
CHAPTER 1
PENAL COLONY 156
My name is Billy B. The B stands for Balentine but no one ever calls me that. In the year 2074 I was sent to prison for a computer crime. I crashed the state betting system for a week with a virus. I served my time on Penal Colony 156 in Deep Space 7. That s no holiday resort. Deep Space 7 is a wilderness of dead stars. Penal Colony 156 is its black heart. Only the worst criminals end up there. The judge sent me there to teach me a lesson.
I learnt a lesson all right. A year later I came back to Earth a changed man. But not in the way the judge had hoped. On Penal Colony 156 I learnt, for the first time, the thrill of real, live sport. We boxed, we raced, we threw but, best of all, we played football. Nobody I knew on Earth had ever played football. We d gamed it on screen with simulators, yes. But not on a pitch, kicking a real ball. No one did that any more. It was stupid, violent, dangerous That s what we were told, anyway. But what I found out in prison was that it was also wild, amazing, fun. And I couldn t get enough of it.
It s all thanks to Danny Marconi. He s a lifer on Penal Colony 156. His grandad was Tony Marconi, a famous football star when it was the most popular game in the world. Thousands of people used to go to stadiums to watch it. That was back before simulators took over. There are no simulators in prison. You have to make your own fun. So Danny started games of football.