Stone Cold (Puffin teenage fiction)

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In the film, Jesse sets up the Lincolns at Candace's house; in the novel, the final shootout takes place in a mall.

From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths. They married and she became a double agent, but his spymaster, Gray, never quite believed that she was trustworthy. Stone Cold is a 2005 American made-for-television crime drama film directed by Robert Harmon and starring Tom Selleck, Jane Adams and Reg Rogers. He gets his watch stolen, and he loses his money to a crooked landlord, and finally, he ends up homeless on the streets of London.

Support your teaching of this harrowing YA novel by Robert Swindells with our range of activities and worksheets. Overall I think that this novel is very good and I would recommend it to fans of realistic horror novels but I think most people would enjoy because of the various theme that it uses.

But by night he is on a quest of vengeance, taking out the squad of CIA killers who murdered his father and made it look like a suicide when he was still a kid. A former homicide detective in Los Angeles, Jesse was fired from the LAPD because of a drinking problem that began following his divorce.After getting his watch stolen on the first night Link meets a fellow homeless man named Ginger who teaches him how to survive on the streets. As they taunt the police chief with subtle talk of the murders, Jesse makes it clear that he knows they are the killers. He’s been driven to this desperate quest for vengeance by his elderly mother Lesya, who appears to be suffering from dementia, but is actually in hiding in her nursing home as we learn when we witness her speaking perfectly coherent Russian to her son. The book describes homelessness through Link’s eyes and explains the plight of these homeless youngsters in graphic factual detail.