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A short time ago, Freedom Smith was just a daredevil gypsy boy with extraordinary strength and agility. Now he works for Phoenix, a special police operation. A sinister email has been going around, a Screamer. Kids have been disappearing after seeing it, including his friend Java.

Freedom must go under cover to infiltrate the source. But is he ready for what he finds? And can he master the ultimate fighting technique, the Dragon Fire?

A nail-biting, fast-reading science-fiction thriller. Sequel to the action-packed Fight Game.

Three months ago I was just another gypsy boy – moving from place to place, earning a crust of bread here and there, and maybe getting into a few scrapes. The next thing I know I’ve got an undercover police operation called Phoenix on my tail. It turns out they’re the ones who deal with other-world crime – rumours of

monsters in the sewers, laboratories letting mutants loose, secret troops of genetically modified soldiers … if it’s weird they investigate.

You have to be crazy or a freak to work for Phoenix. That’s why they wanted me – I’ve got the craziness. I spend my free time running across roofs, or finding ways to get into tunnels below the city streets. And any bit of trouble that’s around usually sticks to me. But mostly they came after me because I’m a freak. I have something called the Hercules gene. My great-great-great granddaddy, the champion bare-knuckle fighter Hercules Smith, had a rogue gene that gave him phenomenal strength, and I’ve inherited it. That’s why Wren, Phoenix’s mission

controller, contacted me three months ago. They wanted me to close down an underground fight club where kids are born and bred to fight all their lives.

And that’s how I came to meet a rich girl called Java Sparrow and rescue her brother Johnny from the fight. After that, I thought I’d done my share of saving millionaires’ kids from a fate worse than death, and Phoenix would leave me in

peace to get on with my ducking and diving.

But this is my life we’re talking about. Instead I got recruited full-time into the organization by Wren, so that I could risk my life on even more missions. Which wouldn’t have been too bad, but I swear to God, no one – especially not Wren – mentioned anything about demons.