the year we disappeared a father daughter memoir

John writes his story - his painful recovery and crippling anger and frustration at an investigation that went much too slowly. John refused to give in to this man's threats and as a result he almost lost his life and his family was put in danger.The really neat thing about this book is that you get two different perspectives. Worse was the fact that he was certain that the man behind his attempted murder was a local criminal who thought he had the police force in his pocket. John wasn't killed, but the bottom of his jaw was shot off and he had a long, painful recovery ahead of him. In this book, daughter Cylin and father John share the story of what happened to their family in 1979 when John, a police officer, was shot in the head. With few choices left to them, the Busby family went into hiding, severing all ties to the only life they had known. Worse, the shooter was still on the loose, and it seemed only a matter of time before he'd come after John-or someone else in the family-again. Overnight, the Busbys went from being the 'family next door' to one under 24-hour armed guard, with police escorts to school, and no contact with friends. The motive? Officer Busby was scheduled to testify against the suspect's family in an upcoming trial. The suspect? A local ex-con with rumored mob connections.

While clinging to life, he managed to write down the name of the only person he thought could have pulled the trigger. The blasts that followed left John's jaw on the passenger seat of his car-literally.

Her police officer father, John, was driving to his shift when someone leveled a shotgun at his window. When Cylin Busby was nine years old, she was obsessed with Izod clothing, the Muppets, and a box turtle she kept in a shoebox.

The year we disappeared a father daughter memoir