War Boy is the first novel by Kief Hillsbery, published in 2000 by Rob Weisbach Books, an imprint of William Morrow

William Morrow

Sir [Arthur] William Morrow DSO, ED, FRCP, PRACP, was an Australian physician and specialist in gastroenterology. He served terms as president of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and of the Australian Club....

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Plot outline

Radboy, a fourteen-year-old deaf skateboarder, leaves his abusive home for San Francisco and becomes involved with (among other things) environmental politics and the underground club scene. Principal characters include Radboy's older friend Jonnyboy, methamphetamine

Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine is a psychostimulant of the phenethylamine and amphetamine class of psychoactive drugs...

 addict boyfriends Finn and Critter, and a Swedish environmentalist, Ula, whose fiance has died, and who is seeking revenge for her sister's injury from a government-planted car bomb. Together the five plan to bomb the Hobart Building

Hobart Building

The Hobart Building is an office high rise located at 582–592 Market Street and Montgomery Street in the financial district of San Francisco. It was completed in 1914 after only eleven months, which led to accusations that it had been constructed with a degree of recklessness, and was at the time...

 and kidnap Jonnyboy's boyfriend Roarke, in an attempt to save the redwoods.