What you doing, Col? Brad had asked. 'Sharpening this,' Colford had answered as if sitting around, in a World War I uniform, sharpening a piece of wood with a rather evil-looking knife, was perfectly reasonable behaviour.
The last thing Brad wants to encourage is the friendship of Colford Rattersby, a strange boy who talks to statues and seems to live in a fantasy World because the real one is so awful. But, despite having plenty of problems of his own, not least his relationship with fiery Stacey, Brad gets drawn into Colford's increasingly bizarre behaviour and the games which are starting to drift from harmless fantasy towards dangerous reality...
