![]() ![]() ![]() Action-loving readers, however, will enjoy the page-turning intrigue offered up by this otherwise typical teen hero spawned from the author’s “Myron Bolitar” series for adults.- Vicki Reutter, Cazenovia High School, NY Pulled in many directions by a plethora of red herrings, including the random appearance of Abeona butterfly symbols, a beautiful movie star neighbor, and a shady character named Shaved Head, it is clear that many contrivances will be needed to tie everything together. ![]() Mickey’s busy sports-agent guardian, Uncle Myron, is more focused on Mickey’s chances of making the school basketball team than on answering questions about his brother’s death, leaving the teen and friends Ema and Spoon the opportunity to investigate Rachel’s shooting. In a parallel plot, Mickey’s classmate Rachel is wounded and her mother shot and killed at their home, by unknown assailants. The owner of the photo is an Auschwitz survivor and eccentric neighbor known as the “Bat Lady,” so when her house burns down and she turns up missing, Mickey is sure it all has something to do with his father. ![]() Flashing back to Shelter (Putnam, 2011), in which his father dies in a car crash and his mother is sent to a mental hospital, Mickey is now shown a photo of a Nazi named the Butcher of Lodz, who is a dead ringer for the creepy paramedic who whisked his father’s body away the day of the accident. High school sophomore Mickey Bolitar is no stranger to mystery and danger and has a rap sheet to prove it. ![]()
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