Carnegie Winner 1993. Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2018-02-28. Link’s narrative details the day-to-day trials of homelessness. He talks about the bitter cold of nights on the street, the burning hunger, the struggles of panhandling, the impossibility of getting a job and the nightly fear of others lurking in nearby dark doorways. One day, Ginger doesn’t return to the boys’ designated meeting place. Link is hurt and concerned, but another of Ginger’s friends says this is just the way it works. Maybe he got a job, decided to leave town, or any number of things. Readers learn from Shelter’s narrative that Ginger has become the newest soldier in his army of dead drifters. The two different POVs added something extra to this book. Even if they hadn't been written in different font (nice touch), their voices were so different that you immediately knew they were from different characters. One was much more sinister and his story was slowly revealed throughout. I thought this was really well done. No, I have not really enjoyed reading Robert Swindells' 1993 and Carnegie Medal winning young adult novel Stone Cold all that much. It is textually majorly depressing and often really quite emotionally infuriating even if indeed Stone Cold is brilliantly penned, with Swindells deftly and ingeniously providing points of view from two very different and mostly majorly unreliable narrators (protagonist Link and antagonist Shelter), and for me, not at all pleasurable and comfortable reading by any stretch of the imagination. However, and the above having been said, I also do not think that the author in any manner expects and even wants us as readers to find Stone Cold a reading joy, that instead, Robert Swindells' presented text for Stone Cold is meant to make us squirm, is supposed to render us uncomfortable, angry and to also make us think, with yes, Shelter's musings about killing and why he wants to rid the streets of London of the homeless feeling by necessity horrifying and terrible (and in particular so since one kind of knows that there are in fact many people, including police officers, politicians etc. who pretty much have similar attitudes to Shelter even if they do not abduct and murder the homeless, even if they do not actually put what Shelter is depicted as doing in Stone Cold into practice, and not to mention that after the police finally manage to arrest Shelter and incarcerate him, Link realises that while in jail, psychotic killer and all-round lowlife Shelter will actually have a roof over his head and three meals a day, but the homeless will still be out in the cold, despised, forgotten and desperately fighting to survive). The story is told in alternating chapters, one by Link and the next by an ex-military mass murderer who preys on the homeless.

Link says that on the streets, men will sometimes try to get into sleeping bags with soft-skinned young men like himself. Another time, he mentions the dangers of men who like young boys and think, because they’re homeless, they’ll do anything for money. There were many themes that ran throughout the novel which meant that the actual plot wasn’t boring. The theme of loss is shown when Link leaves his house and loses basically everything and is forced onto the street. Adventure and courage are both shown when Link is on the street and has to stand up for himself and only survives on what he gets from begging. Even love is shown in the novel when Link meets a beautiful lady named Gail who he instantly falls in love with after seeing her. Stone Cold by David Baldacci is the third exhilarating thriller in the bestselling Camel Club series. I'd say that interestingly the main character was about a homeless person not having a good relationship with family and deciding to become homeless. It was interesting because you wouldn't think that many interesting points can come across in this but in actual fact there were. The Camel Club is a loosely organized group of intellectual oddballs headquartered in Washington, DC. Comprised of rare books expert and librarian Caleb Shaw, retired Special Forces soldier Ruben Rhodes, and math genius Milton Farb, they are led by a man who calls himself Oliver Stone. In the past, Stone was a member of the fictional "Triple Six" assassin division of the CIA, but he has since renounced killing and instead works to uncover the immoral secrets of the US government.Brianna and Andrew Lincoln are middle-aged thrill killers, independently wealthy from a patent Andrew obtained for an optical scanner he invented while practicing medicine. The couple moved to Paradise and began selecting random people and murdering them while videotaping their crimes. Later they find erotic pleasure in watching the videos of the murders while having sex. Jesse and Luther pay the Lincolns a visit and briefly interview the couple, who show interest in the murders. As they leave, Jesse tells Luther that the Lincolns are the killers. not gonna lie it was quite boring. Maybe if he got together with Gail at the end or he got off the streets I would have liked it more. Instead it ends as it begins with Link homeless and alone on the streets. Also he should have saved Sappho and they could have been homeless together. That would have been nice. Smoking: Several people smoke, including Link, in an effort to curb their hunger. Since the book is British, the word fag is often used for the word cigarette. Harry Finn is leading a double life. By day he is a mild-mannered suburban dad who dotes on his wife Mandy and his three kids. 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. 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. Lesya is a former Soviet sleeper agent who was embedded in the US but then fell in love with Finn’s father. They married and she became a double agent, but his spymaster, Gray, never quite believed that she was trustworthy. To punish him for the relationship, Gray sent the Triple Six team to kill him and make it look like a suicide. Finn has grown up hearing stories about this injustice all his life, and finally found himself in a position to do something about it. Set on exposing the real story behind the closed doors of America’s leaders, they draw upon their vast experience to seek justice and the truth.

Most of us can’t relate to the characters as we are not homeless but they did a very good job of portraying the way that homeless people are thought of in society and how they are treated. I think that one of the main reasons for this book being written was to show the hardships that people without homes and jobs have to face every day. It also helps to open your eyes to all the things in our lives that we take for granted Vince leers at Mum, making suggestive comments about going to bed and rounding out a decent night. He nudges and winks at Link, trying to get a reaction. Link notes that he never remembers his own father talking about sex or even hinting at it. Link says that something happened between his sister, Carole, and Vince one night when Mum was working late. He never knew the full details, but he had a pretty good idea about what it could have been. Afterward, Mum and Carole fought, and Carole moved in with her boyfriend.Casino king Jerry Bagger is hunting Annabelle Conroy, the elite con-artist who cheated him out of millions. Stone and his colleagues must draw on all their resources if they are to protect Annabelle from a terrible fate. One day, Ginger decides to meet his old friends. Link waits for him, but he doesn't return. It transpires that Shelter has abducted Ginger by telling him that Link was at his apartment, badly injured. Link finds out Ginger has been murdered. Throughout, bland and occasionally awkward language (is "poncy-looking dude" really appropriate for a sixteen-year-old teen from 1993, Bradford?) distract and disinter the more mature reader, but there are a couple of stand out moments: Sunday Times One of the world's biggest-selling thriller writers, Baldacci needs no introduction . . . Brilliant plotting, heart-grabbing action and characters to die for