Ryan Whitaker learns to be small. A teacher tucks his name on a Post-It. A janitor turns a mop into a stretcher. A mother turns grief into testimony. School Shooter follows three braided lives — the boy who hardens inward, the classrooms that splinter, the city that must reckon — and traces how petty cruelties, missed referrals, and bureaucratic drift accrete into catastrophe. Precise, unsparing, and humane, this literary thriller refuses spectacle and insists on accountability. For readers who love Celeste Ng and Don DeLillo, it asks a chilling question: who will notice the small violences before they become irreversible?
Jobic Chakalisa is the bestselling author of The Siberian Nightmare, Target: Tehran, and North Korea's Secret Weapon.
He currently lives in Chicago. He has always been a movie lover, and this certainly shines through in the way he writes his novels. You won't get lost in over-description, time will never be wasted on characters that have nothing to do with the story, and every single chapter has meaning.
Jobic has only ever had one goal with his work, and that is to entertain. And he hopes your escape into his pages have at the very least done that.