In "Compound Fracture," a queer Appalachian thriller by Andrew Joseph White, sixteen-year-old Miles Abernathy, a trans autistic teen, navigates a violent feud rooted in his family's history. As he uncovers evidence against a corrupt sheriff, he faces brutal retaliation, leading him to join others seeking liberation from oppression. A gripping, political tale for teens.
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him-the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC's leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji's darkest secret: the cult's bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick's termsuntil he discovers the ALC's mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own.[Bokinfo]
In diesem packenden Thriller wird der Protagonist mit einer Bedrohung konfrontiert, die sein Leben auf den Kopf stellt. Auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit muss er sich seinen Ängsten stellen und mit dunklen Geheimnissen umgehen, die ihn und seine Liebsten gefährden. Die spannungsgeladene Handlung führt durch unerwartete Wendungen und lässt den Leser bis zur letzten Seite mitfiebern. Intrigen, Verrat und ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit machen dieses Buch zu einem fesselnden Leseerlebnis.