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Waterstones eleven: D.W. Wilson on Ballistics

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Waterstones eleven début author D.W. Wilson tells us how his novel Ballistics couldn't have been written where it's set, in his native Canada...

"How it all began - that's a good question. It's a philosophical question. It's like asking when a bullet starts toward the beer can. Is it at the moment slug exits muzzle? When I lean on the trigger?"

Ballistics sees Alan West returning to the small town in the Canadian Rockies where he grew up. There, his grandfather sets him on a search for his estranged father, Jack West; a search which leads him into the fire of the mountains, which are slowly burning in the summer heat... Alan's narrative is interspersed with flashback episodes from Archer Cole, a Vietnam deserter he meets along the way, who gradually helps him unravel the knot of the past as they are engulfed by the forest fires of 2003.

 
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