Dartmoor is a desolate place, with lonely windswept plains and giant stones, or tors, sticking out of the ground like the gravestones of giants. Reuben's supernatural abilities seem appropriate considering the setting. Reuben is scared, though, because he knows his sister's killer is already dead, and he doesn't know how Cole will be able to find a dead man. Cole has vengeance on his mind, and Reuben at his mother's urging is going to make sure the gun Cole has in his backpack stays in his backpack. Reuben's 17-year-old brother Cole reluctantly lets his younger sibling accompany him. Life is hard, but death is even harder, and when his sister is brutally raped and murdered, he and his brother journey to an isolated village in the desolate moors of the south to find answers that the police won't provide. The son of a gypsy languishing in prison, Reuben Ford lives in a London auto junkyard with his mother, brother and sister, trying to get by. Kevin Brooks' novel for teens, The Road of the Dead, takes the darker perspective. Wodehouse, on the one hand or the bleak view of someone like Charles Dickens on the other. Readers have a choice between the lighthearted world of say, P.G.
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