The fat man /
by Maurice Gee.
- New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997.
- 182 p. ; 22 cm.
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In 1933, Herbert Muskie returns to his rundown hometown of Loomis, New Zealand, and uses a combination of cunning and psychological threats to take control of the lives of twelve-year-old Colin Potter and his family as part of a plan to get even for the mistreatment he suffered as a schoolboy.