Author(s): Colin Bowles

New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+)

It was the year I broke a bone in my leg, the year I got my first kiss, and the year Jesus got himself shot. One dead Japanese pearl-diver who is starting to smell. A big, slow Filipino crewman. A beautiful girl called Amy O'Rourke. And Sam, who gets mixed up with them all, and maybe shouldn't have. Sam is a skinny layabout, working at the Sun Picture Stadium for his dad, and dreaming of being a hero, a cowboy, a legend. It's Broome, the year is 1926, and the heat is on.