Heartless cruelty

the long version

1983. The Jersey shore. William Bachman, Mr Bachman to hundreds of students and graduates of Atlantis High School and their parents, believes that truth can be found if you try to write it down. And despite what some people think of him, he doesn't believe in heroes. He believes in protagonists. A crackling mystery, a passionate love story, a desperate race to save a motherless child who may not want to be saved. This is the first book in the Mr. Bachman series.