Blood Money

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Sixteen year-olds Jaz Bobby and Jack find themselves caught up in a web of greed and deceit when they steal a bag containing thirty thousand pounds from the local mafia boss in their town Mickey Duck. It all started when Mickey raided by the police and taken for questioning leaves his back door wide open ...inside an ordinary-looking Nike bag has been forgotten about. Before they know what they've done Jaz and her mates are walking away with the money with a plan to hide it in Jaz's gran's empty house and then split it three ways in six months' time. But when some of the money goes missing and Bobby and Jack start behaving oddly Jaz begins to doubt their loyalty. Bobby is her childhood friend but maybe he has secrets of his own just like her and Jack who've been secretly going out together for months ...Jack is now receiving cryptic phone calls spending more time on his own away from Jaz. Then Bobby is blackmailed for a share of the money - GBP 10000. Jaz is convinced it's a hoax worse still that Bobby has made it up. Paranoid she replaces some of the money with chopped up newspaper. It's not a hoax and Bobby is badly beaten up. When he recovers he tells Jack and Jaz that he wants nothing more to do with them or the money which just leaves the two of them. Their relationship is floundering under the strain of hiding the money and a mistrust has crept up between them. Jaz finds out that Jack has another life another girlfriend - he's been lying to her for years. Furious and betrayed Jaz sets fire to the money in front of him - only it's not the real money - which is safely up in her gran's loft ready for a rainy day. She's lost her friends and her self-respect she may as well buy herself some more --> Genre: Young Adult Fiction