After The First Death is a story about a school bus hijacking, the driver a young girl named Kate, one of the terrorists guarding her a teenage boy, Miro, and Ben, the son of the military leader in charge of negotiations, as well as the man himself. Not to spoil a good story, but Ben's death comes later at his own hands when he commits suicide. During the chapters with Ben's father's perspective, where he spoke as if Ben were alive, it turns out that Ben had been dead all along and his father was recounting how he found his body as a mental hospital patient.
With the multiple perspectives of the story, a tightly woven story of how violence changes and ruins all lives touched by it.
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