Paperback edition of this compelling true story. Four boys growing up in NewYorks violent West Side are sent to a reform school when a prank goesdisasterously w... » 

Paperback edition of this compelling true story. Four boys growing up in NewYorks violent West Side are sent to a reform school when a prank goesdisasterously wrong. They are subjected to twelve months of systematic mentalphysical and sexual abuse. Ten years later one of the boys is a journalist theauthor one is a lawyer and two are killers for the mob. The last two stumbleon one of their torturers and shoot him dead and their friends undertake anaudacious plan to get them acquitted and instead put their persecutors ontrial. Powerful stuff indeed. «