One Eight Seven
“When schools become war zones and both sides start taking casualties, what then?”
When a Brooklyn high school student writes the police code for homicide, 187, inside a textbook owned by teacher Trevor Garfield, Garfield feels threatened. The principal dismisses the incident, but the same student stabs Trevor soon after. Fifteen months later, a physically and emotionally scarred Trevor relocates to California and takes up substitute teaching. To his dismay, his new school is as full of dangerously undisciplined students as his old one—including four Latin Americans and a European American claiming membership in tagging gang K.O.S. (Kappin' Off Suckers)—driving him over the edge.
A simmering, urban thriller that captures the soul-crushing frustration of a system failing its educators. It feels like a slow descent into madness, fueled by a palpable sense of dread and a gritty, no-holds-barred realism.
