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1 new york times bestseller the extraordinary true story of four men who take the law into their own hands this is the story of four young boys four lifelong friends intelligent fun loving wise beyond their years they are inseparable their potential is unlimited but they are content to live within the closed world of new york city s hell s kitchen and to play as many pranks as they can on the denizens of the street they never get caught and they know they never will until one disastrous summer afternoon on that day what begins as a harmless scheme goes horrible wrong and the four find themselves facing a year s imprisonment in the wilkinson home for boys the oldest of them is fifteen the youngest twelve what happens to them over the course of that year brutal beatings unimaginable humiliation will change their lives forever years later one has become a lawyer one a reporter and two have grown up to be murderers professional hit men for all of them the pain and fear of wilkinson still rages within only one thing can erase it revenge to exact it they will twist the legal system commandeer the courtroom for their agenda use the wiles they observed on the streets the violence they learned at wilkinson if they get caught this time they only have one thing left to lose their lives praise for sleepers undeniably 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 the washington post book world a 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 the denver post a gut wrenching piece of work lorenzo carcaterra s graphic narrative grips like gunfire in a dark alley the atlanta journal constitution a terrifying account of brutality and retribution searing in its emotional truth peopled with murderers sadists and thugs but biblical in its passion and scope people

Author : Lorenzo Carcaterra