'The Boy Who Wanted Peace 
When e gang of young street boys In Glasgow slum find the proceeds of a bank robbery in the cellar of their school, they turn to Percy Phinn for help and leadership. The conflicts this arouses in Percy, a dreamy self-deluded teenager who works as a packer, lead to ever- increasing tensions, and the founding of a strange religious ritual, This is a gripping and original novel, which mounts to a poignant and unexpected climax 
a shrewd, funny, warm book, firmly founded in reality IRISH TIMES 
GEORGE FRIEL is a talented and, I think, original novelist THE SPECTATOR tremendously satisfying DAILY TELEGRAPH 
cannot fail to please and entertain e scorsMaN