Bullet Point

Bullet Point is a 2010 young adult thriller by Peter Abrahams, published by HarperTeen as a 294-page book.

Wyatt's situation is established by an economic accident: the school cuts its baseball programme, the coach shows him a photograph of his father as a young man, and the resemblance prompts him to think about a parent he has never known. He then meets a girl named Greer whose father is in the same prison, and she arranges a visit. The programme being cut is what prompts the conversation in the first place, since the coach shows him a photograph of his father at sixteen that could almost be a picture of Wyatt himself.

What he finds is not what he expected. His father is described as suave, intelligent, funny and convincing, and Wyatt becomes sure he is innocent, which leads him to help. The novel's tension comes from the possibility that the help is a mistake. Greer's father is in the same prison, which is how the visit is arranged, and the book's question is whether Wyatt is being told the truth or being used.