He tells you he loves you all the time. That he's going to get you out of the hostel, away from the drugs. He better not be lying to you.
David Belbin is the author of more than thirty novels aimed at teenagers and his work has been translated into twenty-five languages. He was born in Sheffield but has lived in Nottingham since going to university there; he now teaches Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University. The Bone and Cane novels are his first crime writing for adults.