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HOTFOOT! IBD

TOM RICHARDS
STORYLINES ENTERTAINMENT LTD
07 / 2024
9781915959041
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GERRY LARKIN (12) aspires to be a football star. His only problem: he stinks. His co-ordination is zip, he canâÇÖt dribble, canâÇÖt shoot, canâÇÖt play defense. In short, he canâÇÖt play. HeâÇÖs the lad thatâÇÖs always chosen last when teams are picked after school. And the team that gets him always considers it a handicap when forced to use Gerry, because Gerry invariably loses the game for them. That said, he does have a couple of friends who have much the same problem: guys and girls who love the sport but simply canâÇÖt play . . .ThereâÇÖs FRAN CURTAIN, keeper and team captain and the brains behind the team (if, indeed, any brains can be found), BIG JIMMY, a sloshing ton of lard who can steamroll over anyone on the field, the BRIGHT BROTHERS-ALMOST and NOT QUITE-twins who are definitely not the brightest of people, HAROLD SMITH, the small cowardly back who hates any kind of confrontation, and TOMMY REYNOLDS, whose Coke-bottle thick glasses spell disaster on the field when he loses them. This inept group of individuals come together to form . . .The kids will play against just about anyone who will take them on. The result, of course, is embarrassing. Scores of 27-nil are not uncommon. Hotshot team members sliding into goalposts, taking out referees in blindside tackles, wiping out opposing parental visitors in 'co-ordinated' offensive strikes are all par for the course. The result: they becomes the butt of the country.Until LUCKY LUCY (Beelzebub disguised as a talent scout) visits them. Lucky insists that with just a little of his special coaching, the Hotshots will become the most successful team in history. The cost: a lot of sweat and work, of course. And one more item: the souls of each of the team players. After a little hesitation, and despite protests from Gerry, the team signs LuckyâÇÖs Temporary Contract. Little do they know that the end result will be an eternity of low-paid coal carrying in a hot little place due south . . . And so, each team member gains a particular talent. Gerry is chosen as the Striker and is given a leg which has never before been seen in the annals of professional football. His hotfoot is accurate and incredibly powerful-so powerful that it can deflate balls, destroy defenders and rip through even the strongest goal netting with a single WHAP!The team competes against teams taken completely by surprise. Enlisted at last by the manager of the countryâÇÖs International Squad, Gerry, Fran and the rest of the Hotshots play with their famous international adult counterparts and end up trouncing team after team as they glide onward to victory.But on the eve of the World Cup Final-the most famous game in international soccer-the Hotshots have to make a choice: to sign LuckyâÇÖs Eternal Contract which will sacrifice their souls for all eternity, or to achieve an incredible win which theyâÇÖve all dreamed of so obsessively.Fortunately, however, IGNATIUS-Angelic Problem Wish Assistant First Class-has a plan on how to beat Lucky Lucy at his own game, stop the team members from signing the final contract with the dastardly fellow, and get his kidsâÇÖ souls back. Without permission from MICHAEL (archangel and IggyâÇÖs boss), Ignatius risks everything and swooshes to the kidsâÇÖ rescue. Earthside, he confronts Lucky in an out-of-this world fight where both feathers and pitch-forks go flying.á

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