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Gr 9-Up On August 31, 1979, tough cop John Busby was shot at close range while driving to work on Cape Cod. Bleeding profusely with the lower half of his face blown off, he realized that somebody wanted him dead, and identified a brazen local bully as the culprit, an arsonist with whose family Busby had clashed on the job. John and his daughter, Cylin, who was nine at the time of the shooting, recount the year that followed in alternating chapters, incorporating candid commentary and sometimes-disturbing detail about a crime that never resulted in ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Cape Cod police officer John Busby was driving to work one night in 1979 when a car pulled alongside his and a passenger in the other car blasted off the lower half of his face with a shotgun. The chapters in which Busby narrates this brutal act and the harrowing medical treatment that saves his life (but still leaves him unable to eat and talk normally until future reconstructive surgeries) have a gory immediacy. Unfortunately, later sections get bogged down in mapping out the corruption within the Falmouth police force that allows the likely perpetrator, a notorious local criminal, to remain at large. Th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Policeman John Busby narrates being blasted in the face with a shotgun and the harrowing treatments that save him. Dau...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In The Year We Disappeared, Cylin and John Busby’s alternating narratives provide two fascinating perspectives on one shocking experience. Cylin Busby writes: “[My brothers and I] were just regular kids, suddenly thrust into a world of pity cookies and hugs from strangers. But with the small-town fame and all the public pleasantries came...Log In or Sign Up to Read More