The Skootamatta Ozone Ball

By J.E. McBee

A week after a mysterious accident claims the life of one of their friends, a group of young men converges on Tom Martin's family cottage in a remote area of Ontario for Labor Day weekend. It's 1972, the summer of Watergate, and the world is a complicated place. Nixon, Woodward and Bernstein dominate American headlines as the Vietnam War is slowly edging toward a conclusion few Americans consider a victory. North of the border, all eyes are focused on the Summit Series unfolding in Montreal as Canadian hockey pride is on the line for the first time against the Soviet Union.During the course of the holiday weekend the young Americans are confronted with a missing juvenile delinquent, inopportune lightning strikes, duplicitous drug merchants, seductive figure skaters, a harrowing boating mishap, an absence of indoor plumbing and a previously undiscovered undercurrent of resentment toward the U.S. politely seething beneath the pleasant demeanor of the Canadian populace. J.E. McBee's darkly comic tale takes us back to a time that eerily foreshadows today's political climate.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1980290423
• ISBN13: 9781980290421
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"