Crash and Burn

by Michael Hassan

  And thank you, Roxanne, wherever you are.

  About the Author

  MICHAEL HASSAN lives in the Northeast. CRASH AND BURN is his first novel.

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  Cover art © 2013 by Christine Blackburne

  Cover design by Ray Shappell

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  Crash and Burn

  Copyright © 2013 by Michael Hassan

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Hassan, Michael.

  Crash and Burn / by Michael Hassan. — 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Steven “Crash” Crashinsky relates his sordid ten-year relationship with David “Burn” Burnett, the boy he stopped from taking their high school hostage at gunpoint.

  ISBN 978-0-06-211290-3 (trade bdg.)

  EPub Edition © JANUARY 2013 ISBN: 9780062112927

  [1. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 2. Emotional problems—Fiction. 3. Violence—Fiction. 4. High schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.H2778Cr 2013

  [Fic]—dc23

  2012004280

  CIP

  AC

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  13 14 15 16 17 CG/RRDH 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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