Kill Shot

by Bill Bunn

Fiction. Young Adult. In summer 2012, sonar scanning found a submerged vessel in the Canadian province of Labrador believed to be a WWII German U-boat. From this find grew Bill Bunn's teen adventure, KILL SHOT. The story switches between the fictionalized events that led the German crew to submerge and die in the river, and the adventures that occur seventy years later when Wednesday Smythe finds the remains of the vessel and crew. Wednesday is a pimply 14-year-old freshman whose parents died when he was a baby. Shuttling between foster care and a group home, he finds himself in a rural trailer with a pair of dodgy foster parents who pawn his electronics. With nothing to do, he is forced into long walks along the river where he meets a reclusive girl named Stump. Wednesday's other friend, Wally, is embittered and angry in foster care, lashing out in ways that threaten Wednesday's growing rapport with his new family. All three are drawn together in a fast-paced adventure pitting their wits against the bad guys, and the cops who want to bust them for any number of nefarious deeds.

378 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2015

About the author

Bill Bunn is the author of four, soon to be five, books, several essays and articles.

His next Young adult novel, Out on the Drink, will be out this year (2018). He’s published two other young adult novels: Kill Shot, 2015, and Duck Boy, 2012. His published essays were collected and published as Hymns of Home, 2013. In 2003, Moon Canoe, a children’s picture book was published. Moon Canoe translated into French and released as Canoë Lune (2005).

He is currently writing two pages a day to generate the rough draft of his next novel.