The Shotgun Rule
Blood spilled on the asphalt of this town long years gone has left a stain, and it’s spreading. Not that a thing like that matters to teenagers like George, Hector, Paul, and Andy. It’s summer 1983 in a northern California suburb, and these working-class kids have been killing time the usual...
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Blood spilled on the asphalt of this town long years gone has left a stain, and it’s spreading. Not that a thing like that matters to teenagers like George, Hector, Paul, and Andy. It’s summer 1983 in a northern California suburb, and these working-class kids have been killing time the usual ways: ducking their parents, tinkering with their bikes, and racing around town getting high and boosting their neighbors’ meds. Just another typical summer break in the burbs. Till Andy’s bike is stolen by the town’s legendary petty hoods, the Arroyo brothers. When the boys break into the Arroyos’ place in search of the bike, they stumble across the brothers’ private industry: a crank lab. Being the kind of kids who rarely know better, they do what comes naturally: they take a stash of crank to sell for quick cash. But doing so they unleash hidden rivalries and crimes, and the dark and secret past of their town and their families.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780345481368 (0345481364)
Publish date: January 13th 2009
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Mystery,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
Modern,
Pulp,
Suspense
This was Charlie Huston's first standalone novel after his Joe Pitt and Hank Thompson series. While it is just as visceral and violent as his other novels, it is also quite different. For The author has moved his action to the suburban setting of Northern California and focuses his attention on four...
I know several GR friends recommended this, but perhaps I'm going through too much of a reality phase. I just could not get into this. Got about half way through and chucked it.
Reading this novel was a no-brainer, since I’ve been so impressed with nearly everything else Charlie Huston has written. This was the first book he wrote not as part of a series, so I figured this would be as gripping and compelling and gritty as the other books. And, well, I was a little disappoin...