Jack doesn't know what he's got himself into. One minute he & his best friend Charlie were up in Chinatown having crispy duck with Charlie's dad (and Jack was having to listen to Charlie shouting at his dad for leaving his mum)
- then next minute they were in a mysterious room above a theatre, with some of the strangest characters they'd ever encountered. & they were about to take The Test... & something very very weird was about to begin.
The Test transforms Charlie
- leaving him with the distinctive markings of the Black Tattoo
- & with a temper that seems out of control. The boys' meeting with Esme, a young girl with the most impressive martial arts skills this side of Bruce Lee, her huge & hairy father Raymond, & the mysterious Nick seem to have swept Charlie & Jack into a world they had no idea existed. & it's only going to get stranger...
This epic tale of good & evil, demons & hell, vomiting bats & huge battles marks the debut of an incredible new talent for children's books. Drawing on influences such as comic books, computer games & Eastern martial arts, The Black Tattoo is a book no self-respecting teenage boy will want to miss.




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Spurned by her husb&, & cheated of her inheritance, the Black Widow feels justified in seeking revenge. Determined to lay claim to the Elysian Fields, a health farm with a unique doctrine of sensual pleasure & erotic stimulation, the Black Widow wants what's rightfully hers.
Indulging a new-found passion for sexual domination, she is only too pleased to deal with those that get in her way. Punishments are cruel & explicit as she forces subordinates to do her bidding. Only the brave dare beg for mercy & their cries invariably go unheeded. Caught in the middle of this hostile takeover, private investigator Jo Valentine find herself entangled in the Black Widow's web.
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Spurned by her husb&, & cheated of her inheritance, the Black Widow feels justified in seeking revenge. Determined to lay claim to the Elysian Fields, a health farm with a unique doctrine of sensual pleasure & erotic stimulation, the Black Widow wants what's rightfully hers.
Indulging a new-found passion for sexual domination, she is only too pleased to deal with those that get in her way. Punishments are cruel & explicit as she forces subordinates to do her bidding. Only the brave dare beg for mercy & their cries invariably go unheeded. Caught in the middle of this hostile takeover, private investigator Jo Valentine find herself entangled in the Black Widow's web.
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The second part of the thrilling Brethren of the Coast trilogy

Thomas Marlowe, former pirate & captain of

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