![]() ![]() ![]() Kevin Brooks again shows the brilliance that won him acclaim for Martyn Pig and Lucas. The secret pressures mount on Moo from all sides-money and gifts, threats and beatings-until he chooses to kiss the RAIN, to take action against his tormentors. If he lies, Vine will take violent revenge. If he tells the truth, Keith Vine, a notorious bad guy, will go free, and Detective Inspector Callan will retaliate by sending Moo's father to jail for welfare fraud. Moo is the only witness, and his story is not what the police want to hear. That is until the day he sees two speeding cars, a crash, a scuffle, and a murder on the bridge. Because after school there is always the bridge-a place where he can where he can watch the cars go by on the highway and find some shelter from the RAIN. ![]() Moo has learned to "umbrellarize" it, to walk through it with his eyes down. The jokes, the insults, the snide laughter, the beatings-all of it he calls the RAIN. Moo Nelson is fat-pale white blubbery fat-and he gets rained on every day at school for it. ![]()
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