The Outfit can't believe it when half the village turns out to protest against Farmer Denton's wind turbine. After all it's much better than ugly pylons and nuclear power stations. They decide to keep an eye on things - then Jillo is kidnapped - can the Outfit save Jillo?
Robert Swindells left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer.
RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.
