Book description
The skeleton lay on its back. The jaws gaped and one arm lay across
the chest as through flung there to ward off a blow . . .
The Tangle is a long, narrow stretch of derelict land, a wilderness
of weeds and rubbish with an old railway tunnel yawning blackly at one
end. No-one - not even bullying Gary Deacon - dares venture far into
its sooty darkness. But it is here that twelve-year-old Tan and his
friends make a grisly discovery - a discovery that is to plunge them
into a terrifying adventure as the tunnel slowly unfolds its sinister
secret . . .
ROBERT SWINDELLS left school at fifteen to work on a local
newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then
trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the
author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House
children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD
(Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer.
'Plots which grip the reader from the opening paragraph' THE SUNDAY TIMES
'Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary you're
afraid to turn the page' YOUNG TELEGRAPH
