{"product_id":"dead-straight-line","title":"Malcolm Duffy: Dead Straight Line [2026]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo unlikely worlds collide as prize-winning Malcolm Duffy explores the life-changing repercussions of a single action in a game gone wrong.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSixteen-year-old Rory is a rule-breaker, a risk taker, a maverick. As a kick he comes up with a game called Dead Straight Line. The idea is simple - wherever you happen to be, you've got to get home in a dead straight line. Across the back gardens of stranger's houses, locked parks, trespassing on private property - whatever it takes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne day, Rory pressures his friend Eliot into playing, resulting in a serious accident. Shunned by friends and facing pressure from his furious parents, Rory becomes even more angry and disruptive. When his school suggests helping out a care home, he's unimpressed. But paired up with Tanker, an eighty-year-old Geordie military veteran, who fought in the Falklands War, things slowly begin to change. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom seeking thrills to finding friends, choosing the right path in life is never a dead straight line. But there is always a way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duffy, Malcolm","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53174225207635,"sku":"9781035919277","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/9781035919277.jpg?v=1772839238","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/dead-straight-line","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}