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The Prison Runner
by Deborah Ellis - £6.99 Oxford University Press (2008)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9780192755483 | ISBN 10: 019275548x
An error of judgement hurls Diego into a nightmare. He's been living in prison with his mother and sister, looking after them and earning money whenever he can. Until the day he accidentally breaks the rules. Suddenly the family are in trouble, and Diego needs money to save them.
So when one of his friends tells Diego that he knows a job that will make them both rich, Diego gives into temptation. But the job is far different from the one he'd imagined, and Diego soon finds himself in the heart of the Bolivian jungle and the clutches of men who produce drugs for a living ...
(Price & availability last checked: August 2018)
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