Breathing Fear
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Cover Story
This issue’s cover is from Edward Ardizzone’s Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain. Brian Alderson discusses this classic picture book, now reissued in a beautiful new edition by Scholastic in ‘Classics in Short’. Thanks to Scholastic Children’s Books for their help in producing this January cover.
Breathing Fear
Seb Flude is a talented young rock musician whose special gift is for choosing marvellous girl friends with homicidal fathers. This political thriller is the sequel to Son of Peter Flude , where Seb’s parents are murdered by the drug-dealing father of his beautiful girl friend Lisa. This villain has found sanctuary in Brazil, taking Lisa with him. In Breathing Fear Seb follows in his father’s footsteps and founds his own band, Sail. His feisty new bass guitarist, Jules, turns out to be the daughter of a ruthless international arms trader, secretly linked to Lisa’s father in illicit deals. When Sail decide to use their music to expose them, violence and danger follow. Part topical thriller (in the wake of ‘arms to Iraq’ and ‘ethical foreign policies’), part love story, part behind-the-scenes tale of rock music, this is a pacy, page-turning tall story with a sharp edge of truth.


