Bully, Me

by Thom Whalen

Pete Jayson is a high school senior in a Southern California beach town. He happily admits to being a bully, beating up smaller students and stealing from them. But life stops being all fun and games when his father, a deputy sheriff, gets entangled in a web of corrupt cops and violent drug smugglers. It falls to Pete to find a way to save himself and his father’s career.

291 pages, Paperback

Published April 27, 2026

About the author

Thom Whalen studied experimental psychology at UCSD (B.A.), UBC (M.A.) and Dalhousie University (Ph.D.). After working for the Government of Canada conducting research on the human factors of computer networks for thirty years, he retired to begin a new career writing fiction.

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