"It gave me a perspective on individual sport and team sport," he said. He had natural speed and through intensive training got his PB down to 10.9 seconds for the 100m and he mentions making "a lot of sacrifices" to compete in Sydney. "I got to a point in high school where rugby and cricket took over and athletics was on the side, but I competed in athletics in the summer to try and keep my fitness and speed up." "I did a lot in the summer, with cricket, and then rugby obviously in the winter in New Zealand. “I did athletics from a young age," he recalled. READ MORE: Passion and energy will make Jacques Nienaber a great Leinster coach, says Jason Jenkins He represented his country as a sprinter in the Youth Olympics in Sydney in 2007, but really it was rugby and cricket that captured his heart. Ngatai, 32, was a sporting prodigy as a kid. Instead, the one-time All Black is all in on helping the province to a first Champions Cup and URC double since 2018 in his first season at the club. This extraordinary thriller will attract fans who will clamor for the next book.Leinster centre Charlie Ngatai laughs that in another life he could be amassing riches in cricket's megabucks IPL competition. This makes for a fast, almost breathless read that will tempt readers to scan ahead for answers. The action scenes create heart-pounding suspense as the characters try to hide and run from their enemies. By writing in first-person from Blade’s perspective, Bowler allows Blade to tell readers only what he wants them to know, even speaking to the readers directly as if he knows what they are thinking (which is consistently spot-on). Bowler does a fine job of creating a believable transition in Blade from loner to protector, with its resulting confusion and self-directed anger. The most compelling relationships are between Blade and Becky, a sixteen-year-old gang member who isn’t tough enough to fit in, and Blade and Jaz, a little girl who trusts him completely. (“Don’t let anyone tell you girl gangs are a softer touch than boy gangs. He is not seeking the brief connection he makes with Mary, an elderly woman who gives him clothes and a warm place to catch his breath after being attacked and stripped by a gang of girls. Bowler leaves his readers with more questions than answers, cleverly pacing the plot with teasers and chapter-ending cliffhangers that keep readers enthralled all the way to the enigmatic and unexpected ending.īlade is a loner, both by choice and by circumstance, but he is forced into a number of relationships. Tim Bowler, author of Frozen Fire, delivers another riveting suspense novel for teens in his newest work, Blade: Playing Dead, the first in a new series.
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