![]() ![]() At once competitive, stubborn and aggressive, Busby’s personality seems to have both prompted the shooting and helped him survive it. ![]() Beyond recounting a fascinating, if lurid, tabloid story, neither author offers any analysis or reflection that would allow readers to place the events in a larger context. The account ends before readers learn how (or if) they made it to adulthood in one piece. Until the family was secretly relocated, Cylin, nine, and her brothers struggled to manage an intolerable burden of fear, even under 24-hour police protection. Readers should know that the book depicts Busby’s shooting, injuries and reconstructive surgeries in unrelenting detail. This alternating father-daughter memoir provides a graphic account of the event and its yearlong aftermath-both directly attributable to a corruption-riddled municipal government. ![]() In 1979, John Busby, a Falmouth, Mass., cop was shot in the face while driving to work. ![]()
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