BLADE Playing Dead by Tim bowler

BLADE Playing Dead is about a 14 year old kid and as far as you know has no family.He speaks of how he has a dark past and wss known as blade.Blade has tried to escape his past by moving to the city where he lives in peoples houses when there away and stays in the shadows to stay out of trouble.At the beginning of the book he is aware of being followed and ends being beat up by a group of 16 year old girls.After this event he ends up being taken in by a simpathetic old woman. Blade notices things wrong about the house and eventualy the house is raided by a group of thugs.He runs of after hearing gunshots and hides in a house who's owners where o holiday.the next day he goes back to the hows fearful of discovering the worst buts finds something else. After this he is on the run from the thugs who where chasing him from his past with the girl who along with him had been accused of killing the dead girl found at the house.Blade decides to come out of hiding from his past (playing Dead) and to fight.The book is a sort of story set up and ends on a cliff hangar to leave the plots of the next books open.