Secret Heart Macmillan|Tor twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out

twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesnt come home

about an old unsolved murder

it is his business to hunt for names on paper

Drawing from two political and several literary homelands

Secret Heart Macmillan|Tor twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes outJoe lives with his mother in Helmouth, a forgotten village crumbling on the edge of the suburbs. His days are spent trying to evade the demands of school and the taunts of the local bullies. Joe's friend, Stanny, insists that Joe must toughen up, become a survivor and he is adamant that a weekend in the wilderness with Stanny and his Uncle Joff will do the trick. Into Joe's unhappy world comes Hackenschmidt's Circus, and with it the strangely familiar