School Shooter: a Threat Assessment Perspective by Thorsten Nesch
School Shooter: a Threat Assessment Perspective
by Thorsten Nesch
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My Ratings 4.5/5
Synopsis
During a school shooting six students flee into the library of their school and barricade themselves, but it turns out one of them is the shooter ... About „School-Shooter“ - the novel received the literary arts council grant of the province Northrhine-Westfalia - a grant by the Film- and Media-Stiftung NRW for writing the radioplay. - the radioplay was produced and aired nationwide in 2012 on WDR, public radio station. - the story treatment received the honorary mentioning by jury of the Munster Filmfestival. Voices: »What a whodunnit!« »Full of surprises and suspense« »Like through the lense of a camera« »That‘s how a thriller works!« The author: Thorsten Nesch was born in 1968 in Solingen, Germany. Between 1998 and 2003 he lived in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. He is an award-winning author published in big and small publishing houses (Rowohlt Verlag, Satyr Verlag, Epubli, Berlin). He is also writing radioplays and screenplays. With his novels he is touring Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Northern Italy doing more than 100 readings each year. Jury: „His style is a stroke of luck for the modern German literature.“ For further information please check Twitter (@TheNesch), Facebook (TheNesch) or www.thorsten-nesch.com
My Thoughts
Over the last few decades, an entire body of literature has grown around the topic of school shootings, including YA, adult fiction, non-fiction, movies, and television. School Shooter: a Threat Assessment Perspective by Thorsten Nesch story helps us wrestle with something we cannot grasp. Why? How could this happen? Novel in particular allow us to see the world from inside a character’s perspective, and through that connection, we may gain some small measure of understanding.
Perhaps that’s why so many novels about school shootings offer multiple points of view to readers. There are so many perspectives in these situations. School Shooter: a Threat Assessment Perspective Is the book about school violence give unique perspectives on these horrific tragedies. The characters are not one-dimensional, flat caricatures but offer rich portrayals of the human complexity behind the story.
This novel includes a dramatic events at the school, and although I’ve read this book twice now, I could read it again and still find is as chilling as the first time. Thorsten Nesch deftly manages to create nuanced characters that I simultaneously felt empathy for and utter disgust and loathing.
Don’t miss this devastatingly powerful book.
Highly Recommended!
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