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The Hunted

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The Hunted

In a future world where people live to be 150, humans have paid the price for their longer lives – the cost being their fertility. Children have become a commodity: they are bought and sold, won and lost, and worst of all, are hunted by the ‘kiddernappers’ keen to make a quick buck on a big sale. When Deet wins Tarrin in a card game he rents him out to childless couples. They pay for Tarrin to play in their houses, and they pretend he’s their child for an hour or two. But as Tarrin gets older, Deet is keen to secure his future and his interest in ‘The Peter Pan’ operation grows. By having ‘The Peter Pan’, Tarrin would stay a boy for ever. He would grow old inside the body of a young boy. While Tarrin faces a difficult dilemma, someone is watching him. Someone who has plans of his own.

Type Of BookMiddle Novel
FormatPaperback
ISBN9780330431903
Published20/10/2005
Price Per CopyRRP $14.95
1–9 copies$13.45
10–19 copies$12.70
20+ copies$11.96
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Alex Shearer

Alex Shearer started his writing career as a scriptwriter and has had great success in that field. His credits include The Two of Us, the 1990s sitcom starring Nicholas Lyndhurst. More recently he has started writing for children. His Wilmot stories have been adapted for TV by Yorkshire television, and The Greatest Store in the World, was screened as a feature length TV film on Christmas Eve 1999 by the BBC. The Great Blue Yonder, his children’s novel about the afterlife, was published to critical acclaim by Macmillan, who published The Speed of the Dark in 2003. His boys adventure at sea, SEa Legs, is published by Hodder in June 2003.

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