Fugitives

by Alex Shearer

On the run after blowing up a deserted building with dodgy fireworks, Davy and Mike are taken in by a passing couple who witnessed their misdemeanor. It's almost like the loving family they never had, except it's not. But events take a sinister turn and things will never be the same again.

288 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2004

About the author

Alex Shearer started his writing career as a scriptwriter and has had great success in that field. His credits include The Two of Us, the 1990s sitcom starring Nicholas Lyndhurst. More recently he has started writing for children. His Wilmot stories have been adapted for TV by Yorkshire television, and his children's novel, The Greatest Store in the World, was screened as a feature length TV film on Christmas Eve 1999 by the BBC. Alex's recent novel 'The Speed of the Dark' was shortlisted for the 2002 Guardian Fiction Prize

Alex Shearer lives with his family in Somerset. He has written more than a dozen books for both adults and children, as well as many successful television series, films, and stage and radio plays. He has had over thirty different jobs, and has never given up trying to play the guitar.

Reviews

[Hana · Rating 3 out of 5]

After reading the highly hilarious Sea Legs, I read The Fugitives thinking it would be another action packed, funny novel. I was wrong. This book was actually extremely depressing. BUT IT WAS SUPER GOOD. Especially the toward the end when the boys and the guy were running away from the stone cold woman because the guy didn't have the guts to kill two children but the woman did and they were terrorists so that was their job but the man failed and he secretly loved the woman but he realizes he has to the unthinkable to save the children and this book is really sad and dramatic and cool and heart stopping and yeah it is super good. :)