In a future London Concentr 8 is a prescription drug intended to help kids with ADD Soon every troubled teen is on it It makes sense doesn&t it? Keep the undesirable elements in line Keep people like us safe from people like them What&s good for society is good for everyone Troy Femi Lee Karen & Blaze have been taking Concentr 8 as long as they can remember They&re not exactly a gang but Blaze is their leader & Troy has always been his quiet watchful sidekick
- the only one Blaze really trusts They&re not looking for trouble but one hot summer day when riots break out across the city they find it What makes five kids pick a man seemingly at random
- a nobody he works in the housing department doesn&t even have a good phone
- hold a knife to his side take him to a warehouse & chain him to a radiator? They&ve got a hostage but don&t really know what they want or why they&ve done it & across the course of five tense days with a journalist a floppy-haired mayor a police negotiator & the sinister face of the pharmaceutical industry they
- & we
- begin to understand why This is a book about what how we label children It&s about how kids get lost & failed by the system It&s about how politicians manipulate them Gripping & controversial reading for fans of Malorie Blackman & Patrick Ness