The hit
By: by Melvin Burgess
Publisher: Chicken House; Chicken House, The
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Frome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781908435330; 9781908435958
Subjects: Death; Love; Gangs; Drugs; Juvenile fiction; Teenagers; Drug taking; Dystopias; Young adult literature; Fiction
Description: There is a new drug on the mean streets of Manchester which promises the most intense week of your life, and then you are dead--and after he watches a pop star die on stage, Adam thinks that his own life is so miserable that he might just as well try it.
Table of contents: title: A new drug is out. Everyone is talking about it. The Hit. Take it, and you have one amazing week to live. It's the ultimate high. At the ultimate price Adam is tempted. Life is rubbish; his girlfriend's over him, his brother's gone. So what's he got to lose? Everything as it turns out. It's up to his girlfriend, Lizzie to show him.; title: In the grim world of the near future, society is crumbling. The rich live in ease while the majority toil and scrimp, their only release the designer drugs sold by criminal gangs. Adam's life is in pieces; title: he has lost both his brother, and his girlfriend. He takes a new drug called Death, which gives you just one perfect week left to live, and fulfil all your dreams. Now he must attempt to work his way through his bucket list, discovering sex and love along the way.-Suggested level; secondary.