Anthony McGowan

Calling Johnny Middleton's school Hell High is unfair - unfair on hell. It is a brutal dictatorship run by the deputy head, known as the Shank, and his 'prefects', a group of bullyboys and enforcers who have thumbs in almost every racket in the school, from feeding the insatiable Lardies to taxing the Year Seven's dinner money. The only thing the Shank cares about, beyond his craving for absolute discipline, is the school pets - so when they are slaughtered in ever more savage and bizarre ways, someone must pay - and that person is going to be Johnny.

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