& What if I told him I am not the hero he thinks I am ?& Maimed & disfigured whilst fighting in the World War Two young Francis Cassavant must hide both his face & his identity when he goes back home to Frenchtown For his past holds a bitter secret one which he has vowed to revenge & which he can resolve only through his final desperate plan to destroy the man who betrayed him as a boy Left without a face or a future but sustained by his deep sense of shame Francis watches He thinks of the gun in his duffel bag & waits alone for the return of another supposed hero Praise for Robert Cormier The Chocolate War& This is a tour de force & tour de force of realism&
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