The fat man
By: Maurice Gee.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Criminals -- Fiction; Revenge -- Fiction; New Zealand -- Fiction
Description: In 1933, Herbert Muskie returns to his rundown hometown of Loomis, New Zealand, and uses a combination of cunning and psychological threats to take control of the lives of twelve-year-old Colin Potter and his family as part of a plan to get even for the mistreatment he suffered as a schoolboy.