HOW I MADE THE FBI’S MOST WANTED



By Jamie McCullum




Fiction, 370 pages 



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Contains mature themes, occasional profanity,  sex, drugs, alcohol references,  fighting, death,  controversial subjects. 

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Full synopsis

Twenty-two year old Joshua Thompson, recent graduate of the prestigious Edward R Murrow School for Journalistic Excellence in Manhattan, and current Youth Beat editor for the New York Post Examiner desperately needs a change.


 He’s tired of his life interviewing K-Pop bands, children of the city’s billionaire mayor, and attending teenage influencers’ egocentric, media events. Where's Snowden, where's Xi of China, where's Beyonce?


On the Friday of Memorial Day Weekend, just as he’s finishing the umpteenth YA fluff article on the coming election, he receives a call at his desk on his private cellphone from a woman purporting to be a Delmarva state police employee with a tip about undercover high school police narcs entrapping students and shredding due process and the rule of law. 


A major undercover police offensive called Operation Cobra will hit all Delaware high schools in September.


Curious why she didn’t call a reporter at the Wilmington News Journal instead, Joshua listens as the tipster suggests how he can investigate the Cobra Task Force by going undercover himself in one of Delaware’s high schools and documenting the abuse of police powers firsthand. 


Joshua balks at the idea for he’s certainly not a high school teenager anymore and secondly, has no idea how to clandestinely enroll in a public high school.


But she answers his every doubt. She has seen his byline photo and assures him he indeed looks young enough—the undercover police officers posing as sophomores and juniors are six to eight years older than Joshua, and if they can pass for high school students, “so can you too, Mr. Thompson.”


As far as the rest, she can provide him with the steps on how to enroll and three months later Joshua finds himself in White Clay, a small university town in northern Delaware, at White Clay Senior High School, as Josh Taylor new transfer student in the tenth grade… 


Adults in the unpredictable teen swim, whether rogue cop or noble reporter, can lead only to a single outcome. 


Complete. 

Total.

Disaster.



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