Author: Reynolds, Jason
Interest age: from c 14 years
Published on 23 April 2026 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 208 pages
209 x 147 x 19 | 402g
AND THEN THERE WERE SHOTSEverybodyran,ducked,hid, tuckedthemselves tight.
Pressed our lips to thepavement and prayedthe boom, followed bythe buzz of a bullet,didn't meet us.
After Will's brother is shot in a gang crime, he knows the next steps. Don't cry. Don't snitch. Get revenge. So he gets in the lift with Shawn's gun, determined to follow The Rules. Only when the lift door opens, Buck walks in, Will's friend who died years ago. And Dani, who was shot years before that. As more people from his past arrive, Will has to ask himself if he really knows what he's doing.
This haunting, lyrical, powerful verse novel will blow you away.