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When Herbert Muskie, a.k.a. The Fat Man, catches skinny, hungry Colin Poter stealing a candy bar, he forces Colin to become his partner in crime, swiftly ensnaring and threatening the rest of Colin's family, in a psychological thriller about power and vengeance.
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In an ugly, menacing psycho-thriller set in Depression-era New Zealand, a man returns to his small town to repay the bullies who sent him fleeing 13 years before. Herbert Muskie appears suddenly in Loomis, with overflowing pockets, wild tales of rum-running in the US, and a new wife and stepdaughter. His outward geniality conceals a sadistic talent for cutting through people's defenses, and he quickly proves himself a master of both violent and subtle intimidation. Only a few months earlier, Colin Potter was terrorized into helping Muskie rob his senile mother of her life savings, but he doesn't dare tell his parents, who were among the man's tormentors years before. Gee (The Champion, 1993, etc.) tightens the screws expertly: Strong, cunning, and unbalanced, Muskie is thoroughly frightening and increasingly given to bursts of brutal irrationality. When he snatches his stepdaughter and Colin as hostages after police discover that he's been burglarizing houses in nearby Auckland, even hardened Cormier readers will stop breathing. Colin shows steel beneath his rabbity exterior, ``helping'' Muskie to his doom over a deep gorge, but even in death the fat man has his revenge, leaving nearly everyone he's touched damaged in some way. Sobering and scary. (Fiction. 12-15) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
From Publishers Weekly:
Of this "seamlessly crafted psychological thriller" set in 1933 New Zealand, PW's starred review said, "Gee gives the proverbial victim-turns-villain myth several spellbinding twists.... Readers with a hearty appetite for the diabolical will get their fill here." Ages 12-up. (Mar.)r
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster Children's Publishing
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0689811829
- ISBN 13 9780689811821
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages192
- IllustratorMark Ulriksen
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