The Incredible Slingshot Bombs: The Most Dangerous Weapon... Is in the Hands of a Child

A slingshot is a toy-until the pebble it fires turns a sheriff's car into shrapnel and wipes four bloodhounds off the earth in a burst of white flame. In the hills above Ten Mile Valley, a frightened young man with the mind of a child is running from a posse, and every time he pulls back those rubber bands, something catastrophic happens. The explosions are too large, too violent, too impossible to explain. And yet they keep happening.

Ben Hopper, small-town newspaperman, watches it unfold b...