NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€¢ The extraordinary true story of four men who take the law into their own hands. Â This is the story of four young boys.Â Four lifelong

Sleepers
- Lorenzo Carcaterra, Sleepers
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€¢ The extraordinary true story of four men who take the law into their own hands.
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This is the story of four young boys.Â Four lifelong friends.Â Intelligent, fun-loving, wise beyond their years, they are inseparable.Â Their potential is unlimited, but they are content to live within the closed world of New York Cityâ€™s Hellâ€™s Kitchen.Â And to play as many pranks as they can on the denizens of the street.Â They never get caught.Â And they know they never will.
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Until one disastrous summer afternoon.
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On that day, what begins as a harmless scheme goes horrible wrong.Â And the four find themselves facing a yearâ€™s imprisonment in the Wilkinson Home for Boys.Â The oldest of them is fifteen, the youngest twelve.Â What happens to them over the course of that yearâ€”brutal beatings, unimaginable humiliationâ€”will change their lives forever.
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Years later, one has become a lawyer.Â One a reporter.Â And two have grown up to be murderers, professional hit men.Â For all of them, the pain and fear of Wilkinson still rages within.Â Only one thing can erase it.
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Revenge.
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To exact it, they will twist the legal system.Â Commandeer the courtroom for their agenda.Â Use the wiles they observed on the streets, the violence they learned at Wilkinson.
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If they get caught this time, they only have one thing left to lose: their lives.
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Praise for Sleepers
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â€œUndeniably 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.â€â€”The Washington Post Book World
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â€œA 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.â€â€”The Denver Post

â€œA gut-wrenching piece of work . . . [Lorenzo] Carcaterraâ€™s graphic narrative grips like gunfire in a dark alley.â€â€”The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

â€œA terrifying account of brutality and retribution, searing in its emotional truth, peopled with murderers, sadists, and thugs, but biblical in its passion and scope.â€â€”People

Country	USA
Author	Lorenzo Carcaterra
Binding	Mass Market Paperback
EAN	9780345404114
Feature	Lorenzo Carcaterra, Sleepers
ISBN	0345404114
Label	Ballantine Books
Manufacturer	Ballantine Books
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	384
PublicationDate	1996-03-02
Publisher	Ballantine Books
ReleaseDate	1996-03-02
Studio	Ballantine Books

Sleepers

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