Demon Strike
Andrew Newbound
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UK Price: £6.99
Format: Paperback
Age: 10+
Size: 198x129mm
Extent: 352pp
ISBN: 978-1-906427-17-7
Publication date: March 2010
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Demons from the Dark Dimension pour through a portal in the wall of Pittingham Manor, the mid-point for an attack on high. They’re planning an assault.

Into this chaos stumble 12-year-old ghost-busting psychic Alannah Malarra and burglar Wortley Flint. Up until now they’ve only ever faced tame treasure-hoarding ghosts, but this is something else. Their only hope is a plucky angel police patrol on a routine earth-monitoring mission. Enter Inspectre Flhi Swift and officers Yell and Gloom.

Demon Strike is filled with fabulous comic characters, including psychic ghost-busting 12-year-old adventurers Alannah Mallara and Wortley Flint, together with rookie A.N.G.E.L. police-officers, Flhi Swift and troopers, Yell and Gloom – and some unspeakably villainous demons from the dark-side.

Shortlisted for the Leeds Book Award 2011
Shortlisted for the Calderdale Book of the Year Award 2011

Alannah Malarra’s mobile phone buzzed in her hand like an angry wasp. The twelve-year-old had disabled the ring tone hours earlier, but its electronic spasms still pierced the night’s silence. She quickly flicked her wrist to open the handset, killing the noise instantly.

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"All good characters have great names, and I hope Alannah Malarra is no exception. She seemed to just float inside my head one day as an idea - hiding behind shopping lists, work deadlines, and colourful daydreams about walking along deserted beaches.

Then she emerged, larger than life, and stood defiantly in the middle of my head. She had her hands on her hips, her feet were astride and she flicked her long red hair across her shoulders in a manner that told me she meant business.

And she wouldn’t go away!"

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