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Live the ultimate high. Pay the ultimate price. The shocking return to YA by the author of SMACK.A new drug is on the street. Everyone's buzzing about it. Take the hit. Live the most intense week of your life. Then die. It's the ultimate high at the ultimate price. Adam thinks it over. He's poor, and doesn't see that changing. Lizzie, his girlfriend, can't make up her mind about sleeping with him, so he can't get laid. His brother Jess is missing. And Manchester is in chaos, controlled by drug dealers and besieged by a group of homegrown terrorists who call themselves the Zealots. Wouldn't one amazing week be better than this endless, penniless misery? After Adam downs one of the Death pills, he's about to find out.
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Melvin Burgess (born 25 April 1954) is a British author of children's fiction. He became notorious in 1996 with the publication of Junk, about heroin-addicted teenagers, in the shadow of Trainspotting, only months after the movie version of the 1993 book. At least in Britain, Junk became one of the best-known young adult books of the decade. It won the annual Carnegie Medal and for the 70th anniversary in 2007, it was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works. Burgess completed his first book for publication in his mid-thirties: a novel, The Cry of the Wolf, published by Andersen Press in 1990. It was highly commended by the professional librarians for their annual Carnegie Medal in Literature, which then recognised the year's best book for children or young adults written by a British subject. (Gillian Cross won the 1990 Medal for Wolf, which featured a girl and a metaphorical wolf.…
