Truthers

by Geoffrey Girard

Overview

Katie Wallace has never given much thought to 9/11. She was only a year old when terrorists struck American soil. But now her dad has landed in a mental institution after claiming to know what really happened. He insists the attacks were part of a government conspiracy. And he claims that Katie is living proof: the lone survivor of a massive cover-up. Hoping to free her dad, Katie sets out to investigate his bizarre claims. Soon she's drawn into the strange and secretive world of 9/11 conspiracy theorists known as the Truthers. What is fact and what is fiction? Katie no longer knows what to believe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512467413
Publisher:	Carolrhoda Lab
Publication date:	11/01/2024
Series:	Fiction - Young Adult
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	364
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Geoffrey Girard writes thrillers, historicals, and dark speculative fiction for adults and teens. His first YA, the techno-thriller Project Cain, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. His short fiction has appeared in several best-selling anthologies and magazines, including Writers of the Future. Born in Germany and shaped in New Jersey, Geoffrey currently lives in Ohio where he is the English Department Chair at a private boys' high school and teaches creative writing, philosophy in literature, and horror. He has a BA in English literature and an MA and MFA in creative writing.

Editorial Reviews

"[A] fast-paced nail-biter with a resourceful heroine, packed with surprises that force readers to question every revelation and take nothing at face value."—starred, Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2017-05-15
A white, teenage girl is drawn into the shadowy world of 9/11 conspiracy theorists when her PTSD-afflicted veteran father gives her a cryptic set of clues. Katie Wallace comes home one day to discover that her single father has been taken to the hospital after attacking a co-worker. After being questioned by police, she is allowed to see her heavily sedated father, who is also being held by authorities for threats he made against the government. He reveals shocking news: that she is not his biological daughter and that she was given to him by a woman who died, along with many others, under suspicious circumstances on 9/11 in Cleveland. Armed with this spotty information, she begins to investigate her father's outrageous claims, assisted by new, white college friend Max Thompson. Max serves as a voice of reason while Katie finds herself almost believing her father after she is threatened and kidnapped and undergoes a past-life regression. Will Katie ever know if her father's story is "invented? True? A mixture too muddled to separate?" That statement is also an apt summary of this overplotted novel. Billed as a thriller, it reads instead like a slow-paced, densely written treatise on 9/11 conspiracy theories and rebuttals, voiced by cardboard characters whose main function is to pontificate. No truth here. (author's note, selected bibliography, websites) (Fiction. 14-18)

Kirkus Reviews