Cory Mackenson

Cory Mackenson is a twelve year old boy in 1964. This novel follows Cory's adventures that year, including his attempts to solve a murder by which his father has been haunted since inadvertently witnessing the disposal of the body. Cory is precocious, a young man who wants to be a writer, so he spends a great deal of his time investigating the people and events taking place in the little town where he lives.

Cory fights off Old Moses, a large aquatic creature that swims into a house in Bruton during the flood. Cory later goes camping alone with a group of friends and overhears a bomb transaction that allows him later to save the people of Bruton from a hate crime. Cory loses a good friend that year and gains another. It is an amazing summer that will remain with Cory the rest of his life, bringing...