Pete, a lonely and timid eleven-year-old who has just made friends with an adventurous girl named Rootie, hides out on Cutlass Island with his alcoholic father, waiting for the gunman his father fears will kill him.
- ISBN10 0440911753
- ISBN13 9780440911753
- Publish Date 1 August 1996 (first published 31 May 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Language English