Product Description

When friendship runs deeper than blood

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3193 in Books
• Published on: 1996-04-04
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Synopsis
The true story of a group of four boys brought up in New York's notorious Mafia-run "Hell's Kitchen" during the 1960s. After nearly causing a man's death, they were sent to a reformatory where guards routinely brutalized them, leaving them with nothing but an undying loyalty to one another.

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When friendship runs deeper than blood

From the Back Cover
An unforgettable true story of friendship, loyalty and revenge
Lorenzo, Michael, John and Tommy shared everything - the laughter and the bruises of an impoverished childhood on New York's violent West Side. Until one of their pranks misfired and they were sent to a reformatory school.
Twelve months of systematic mental, physical and sexual abuse left the boys transformed for ever.
Eleven years later, one of them had become a journalist, one a lawyer - and the other two killers for the mob. In a chance encounter they came face to face with one of their torturers and shot him dead in front of several witnesses. The trial that followed brought the four friends together again in one last, audacious stand - and a courtroom climax as gripping as any John Grisham novel.
'A compulsive true story' The Times

'Undeniably powerful, an enormously affecting and intensely human story' The Washington Post

'Compelling' USA Today

'Fabulous, unbelievably good' Entertainment Weekly

'A brilliant, troubling, important book' Jonathan Kellerman