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Synopsis - based on the Wikipedia article
Borribles are runaway children whose ears become pointed as they take to the streets, indicators of their independence and intelligence. As long as their ears remain unclipped they will never age; for this reason, they wear woollen hats pulled low over their ears in order to remain undetected by the authorities, who find their freedom threatening to the social order. Borribles are skinny, scruffy, and tough; they have nothing to do with money, and steal what they need to survive.
In this first book of the trilogy, the Battersea chief lookout, Knocker, discovers a Rumble in Battersea Park. Fearing a full-scale invasion of the Battersea borribles' section of London by these prententious rat-like creatures - the mortal enemies of the Borribles - the London Borribles plan an attack on the Rumble High Command. A handful of elite fighters are chosen from eight London tribes to infiltrate the Rumble bunker and eliminate the Rumble High Command. Thus, Napoleon, Chalotte, Sydney, Vulge, Bingo, Stonks, Torreycanyon, and Orococco set out to squash the Rumble threat - but other Borribles have secret agendas and personal vendettas of their own which create an even greater threat than the Rumbles ever were. The supposedly straight-forward adventure dominoes into a desperate fight for the very existence of Borrible life.
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