Bill Wynn: The Second Hundred

Bill Wynn's life did not end with what happened at Ohio State University, or with the plea deal he agreed to take. It simply continued, under different terms.

In this second volume of the Fiction Outtakes series, Bill has grown into the work: an experienced, confident cook who knows a kitchen and knows his own hands. What has shifted is his position in the world around him — where he stands, who he answers to, and what he is willing to accept.

Robert Moman, the broiler cook whose path crossed Bill's through a legal matter, remains central. Their meeting altered the direction of both men's lives, and the consequences of it keep unfolding. Peter Allen Weiss writes these men without sentiment or apology, in short, closely observed passages that accumulate into something larger.

The result is a character-driven, quietly suspenseful continuation about the choices Bill makes, the relationships that complicate them, and the circumstances that never quite let go.