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Endgame Paperback – January 1, 1975
- Print length413 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAvon Books
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1975
- ISBN-10038000352X
- ISBN-13978-0380003525
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- Publisher : Avon Books (January 1, 1975)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 413 pages
- ISBN-10 : 038000352X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0380003525
- Item Weight : 8.8 ounces
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About the author
Malorie Blackman is acknowledged as one of today's most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. The novels in her Noughts & Crosses sequence have won several awards, including the FCBG Red House Children's Book Award.
Noughts and Crosses has been dramatised as a 6-part TV series which was first shown on BBC TV in March 2020, as well as dramatised twice as a theatre play and produced as a radio drama for BBC Radio 4.
Malorie has won many other awards for her books. Both Hacker and Thief! won the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award - Malorie is the only author to have won this award twice - while Hacker also won the WH Smith Book Award.
Her YA books include Boys Don't Cry, Noble Conflict, Jon For Short and Chasing The Stars - which she describes as her version of Shakespeare's Othello set in space.
Her work has appeared on screen, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-winning TV serial. Malorie also co-wrote the Doctor Who episode - Rosa.
Malorie has also written a number of titles for younger readers including Cloud Busting, which won the Smarties Silver Award, The Monster Crisp Guzzler, Robot Girl, Snow Dog, A Dangerous Game and My Friend's A Gris-Kwok. In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children's books. In 2008, she was honoured with an OBE for her services to Children's Literature.
Malorie Blackman was the UK Children's Laureate 2013-2015.
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This was an Avon paperback original, set in Helsinki if I remember correctly, dealing with the ever-popular [or in this case, prescient] issue of nuclear proliferation in the Arab/Moslem world, and various intelligence agencies and other groups who seek to prevent or to further that goal.
The real distinction this novel can boast of is a rare sympathetic portrayal of the Palestian protagonist. It's the first espionage novel [and still one of the few] I ever read to portray a Palestinian character in such a light. But he is an inept klutz to be sure, and a constant butt of humor and scorn.
Also, the author has a deft touch with characterizations. Two characters - Glenn Stabile [the CIA filed operative] and Sulieman Ferrara [the Palestinian] are particularly well-defined and fleshed out personalities.
You won't be bored with this novel. But nor will you forget Le Carre or a slew of others. It is interesting - I read this novel back in the autumn of 1975 and much of it has stayed with me clearly, as opposed to the dozens of other espionage thrillers I read that same year about which I remember nothing. Really, if you can find a copy, grab it. It's worth you while, even though the author is not a household name [except in the Ardman household, of course].
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In Endgame, Blackman neatly finishes her series with suitable and satisfactory endings for all the characters she has made so realistic over the years. Her decades of hard work in writing this really has paid off.
Endgame is well worth a read, as is every other book in this amazing series of books.