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  1. Sleepers #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER &#8226The extraordinary true story of four men who take the law into their own hands. &nbspThis is the story of four young boys.&nbspFou lifelong friends.&nbspIntlligent, fun-loving, wise beyond their years, they are inseparable.&nbspTher potential is unlimited, but they are content to live within the closed world of New York City&#8217sHell&#8217sKitchen.&nbspAndto play as many pranks as they can on the denizens of the street.&nbspThe never get caught.&nbspAndthey know they never will. &nbspUntil one disastrous summer afternoon. &nbspOn that day, what begins as a harmless scheme goes horrible wrong.&nbspAndthe four find themselves facing a year&#8217simprisonment in the Wilkinson Home for Boys.&nbspTheoldest of them is fifteen, the youngest twelve.&nbspWha happens to them over the course of that year&#8212brtal beatings, unimaginable humiliation&#8212wil change their lives forever. &nbspYears later, one has become a lawyer.&nbspOnea reporter.&nbspAndtwo have grown up to be murderers, professional hit men.&nbspForall of them, the pain and fear of Wilkinson still rages within.&nbspOnl one thing can erase it. &nbspRevenge. &nbspTo exact it, they will twist the legal system.&nbspComandeer the courtroom for their agenda.&nbspUsethe wiles they observed on the streets, the violence they learned at Wilkinson. &nbspIf they get caught this time, they only have one thing left to lose: their lives. &nbspPraise for Sleepers &nbsp&#8220Uneniably powerful, an enormously affecting and intensely human story . . . Sleepers is a thriller, to be sure, but it is equally a wistful hymn to another age.&#8221#8212The Washington Post Book

  2. World &nbsp#8220A powerful book, hard to forget . . . Carcaterra is an excellent writer, changing pace here and there but never letting the reader go. . . . Sensitive, humorous, and harrowing, featuring dialogue with perfect pitch.&#8221#8212The Denver Post &#8220Agut-wrenching piece of work . . . [Lorenzo] Carcaterra&#8217sgraphic narrative grips like gunfire in a dark alley.&#8221#8212The Atlanta Journal-Constitution &#8220Aterrifying account of brutality and retribution, searing in its emotional truth, peopled with murderers, sadists, and thugs, but biblical in its passion and scope.&#8221#8212People

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