The Bullet

From former NPR correspondent Mary Louise Kellycomes a heart-pounding story about fear, family secrets, and one woman’s huntfor answers about the murder of her parents.

Two words: the bullet. That’s all it takes toshatter her life.

Caroline Cashion is beautiful, intelligent, aprofessor of French literature. But in a split second, everything she’s knownis proved to be a lie.

A single bullet, gracefully tapered at one end, isfound lodged at the base of her skull. Caroline is stunned. It makes no sense:She has never been shot. She has no entry wound, no scar. Then, over the courseof one awful evening, she learns the truth: she was adopted when she was threeyears old, after her real parents were murdered. Caroline was there the nightthey were attacked. She was wounded too, a gunshot to the neck. Surgeons hadstitched up the traumatized little girl, with the bullet still there, nestleddeep among vital nerves and blood vessels.

That was thirty-fou