54 minutes. Everyone has reasons to be afraid of a boy with a gun. Marike N.

A stuffy assembly hall. The boring speech of the director. The usual start of the school year at the Opporty School, Alabama, where something interesting is rarely happening.

until the shot is rattling... then another one and more. A guy with a gun who was desperate to be heard.

who laughed at him? Who betrayed? Who could help him, but did not? They are all here in the locked assembly hall. Now their lives depend on the emotions of a broken teenager who decided that he had nothing more to lose.

Absolute Bestseller in America. Laureate of book awards. The afterword of the psychologist Elena Kandybina is included in the Russian edition, in which she talks about the reasons for shooting in schools and gives advice on how to prevent this situation.

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