Billy Boy

by Thomas Hubschman
ISBN 978-0966987737
Trade paperback, 200 p

September 2001

Petty thief, amphetamine junkie, irresistible con man, Billy Conover manages to stay one step ahead of the law...until the night he goes for a joyride and ends up being accused of a brutal murder.

On the surface Billy Boy is a crime story. On a deeper level it’s a story about his redemption from himself. In between, there’s a persistent cop with a boyhood grudge, a sister determined to escape the cycle of drugs and welfare that her childhood friends have fallen into, and the gritty urban war zone of Brooklyn, New York, where the cultural melting pot is stuck on slow-boil.

Critical response to Billy Boy:
“BILLY BOY is as real as it gets, a tough, disturbing, unsentimental account of life on the mean streets of New York City.  Thomas J. Hubschman achieves a minor miracle: he makes us care what happens to a small-time punk who appears hell-bent on self-destruction.”