Double Cross: Book 4

Just this once... Please let me get away with it just this once . . .

A bomb blast in a hotel has killed Callie Rose's grandmother - and everyone assumes a nought terrorist was to blame. For noughts are still using extreme violence in their fight for equality with the darker-skinned Crosses.

But Callie Rose knows the truth - knows who really made that bomb. And as the guilt tears her apart, a fear of the past leaves her afraid for her future.

Her boyfriend Tobey is struggling with his own demons. A nought boy at an exclusive school, Tobey is discovering that he can't keep clinging to some kind of no-man's land while the streets around him are carved up by rival gangs. Offered the chance through a mate to earn some ready money - just for making a few 'deliveries' - Tobey knows he faces a crossroads in his life.

He doesn't want a part of that world. But - just once - would it hurt to say 'yes' ...?

He little realizes how that one small decision can bring the violence down on both himself and Callie . . .

Explosively page-turning, dramatic and full of relevance for our world today, Double Cross is Malorie Blackman's fourth novel in the award-winning Noughts & Crosses sequence.

Malorie Blackman has written over 60 books for children and young adults, including the Noughts & Crosses series, Thief and most recently her science fiction thriller Chasing the Stars. Her work has also been adapted for TV with the 6-part adaptation of Pig-Heart Boy winning a BAFTA and Noughts & Crosses currently in production for the BBC, with Roc Nation (Jay-Z's entertainment company) on board to curate and release the soundtrack as Executive Producer. A stage adaptation of the book, by Pilot Theatre, will run from February 2019, under the direction of Sabrina Mahfouz. In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children’s books, in 2008 she received an OBE for her services to children’s literature and, between 2013 and 2015, she was the Children’s Laureate. Malorie is currently writing for the new Doctor Who series on BBC One and the fifth novel in her Noughts & Crosses sequence, Crossfire, will be published by Penguin Random House Children's in summer 2019.