Shayne Blank, sixteen, walks into a police station and confesses to Detective George Rawls that he's just killed someone. So begins Blank Confession, a fast-moving story of bullying, revenge, and how Mikey Martin, the shortest kid in his class, learns how to stand up for himself.
The story alternates between Rawls and Mikey, each of them giving their impressions of the mysterious loner Shayne. After coming to town, Shayne almost immediately clashes with the town bully and drug dealer, Jon Brande. The stakes keep going up throughout the book. Shayne does everything he can to resolve the situation peacefully, but as we find out, he can defend himself very well when things turn violent.
The action scenes in this book are well written. They have an almost cinematic feel to them -- which is no wonder, since the story is clearly based on a famous Western from 1953 starring Alan Ladd.
The book is only 170 pages, but it packs a lot between the covers. It gave me one very entertaining afternoon of reading.
Kifflie
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