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3	'''Eddie and the Gang With No Name''' is a Young Adult's literature trilogy written by Irish novel writer Colin Bateman. It consists of the novels ''Reservoir Pups'' (2003), ''Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett'' (2004), and ''The Seagulls have Landed'' (2005).
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5	The story revolves around the exploits of a boy named Eddie Malone, who moves to Belfast, Ireland after his father leaves his mother and runs off with someone else (nicknamed Spaghetti Legs by Eddie). His new home is in an apartment complex next to the hospital where his mother works as a nurse. Here he has numerous run-ins with the local omnipresent gang called The Reservoir Pups. His main adventures consist of rescuing kidnapped babies, retrieving the preserved heads of long-deceased saints, and much more.
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7	!!This series contains examples of:
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9	%%* ActionSurvivor: Eddie.
10	* AdultsAreUseless: It is the main reason the Reservoir Pups exist. Self-protection.
11	* BatmanGambit: How the Reservoir Pups try to recruit Ed in the first book.
12	* BedlamHouse: [[spoiler:Eddie Malone]] gets checked in to one after being [[spoiler:falsely accused of kidnapping, or even murdering his new baby brother]] in the third book.
13	* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:The Forgotten]] in the first book.
14	* CloudCuckooLander: Eddie views his mom to be one of these. Then again, he's not entirely unfounded with that.
15	* DeusAngstMachina: The whole situation that Eddie gets in to wind up in Belfast in the first place.
16	* DudeWheresMyRespect: Ed gets like this in the second book.
17	* EvilInc: [[spoiler:Alison Beech's company]] in the first book.
18	* FantasticDrug: "Crush" in the third book.
19	* GeneralRipper: Scuttles towards Eddie.
20	%%* GlorySeeker: Eddie.
21	* HandicappedBadass: The leader of the Reservoir Pups, Captain Black.
22	%%* LittleMissBadass: Mo.
23	* MoneyDearBoy: InUniverse, the reason Mo even joins Ed in the first book.
24	* OverlyLongName: Mo's full name is "Mary Agnes Catlin Delores Assumptia O'Riorden".
25	* {{Ruritania}}: The country the Seagulls of the third book come from.
26	* ShoutOut: The titles of the novels, to the films ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', ''Film/BringMeTheHeadOfAlfredoGarcia'', and ''Film/TheEagleHasLanded''.
27	* TwoLinesNoWaiting: ''Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett'' maintains this. [[spoiler:At least, for about half the book.]]

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