Sleepers: When Friendship Runs Deeper Than Blood by Lorenzo Carcaterra

Childhood friendship confronts the legacy of brutal abuse

Fair to good Condition - Cover is heavily rubbed and creased, with foxing on the opening page and spotted edges. Otherwise pages are clean and readable.

Lorenzo, Michael, John and Tommy grow up together in New York's Hell's Kitchen, sharing the loyalties and mischief of a close childhood friendship. A prank with disastrous consequences sends them to a reformatory, where the abuse they endure changes the course of their lives. Years later, the four have taken very different paths, but a chance meeting with one of their former tormentors brings the past back into the present. Their renewed connection leads towards a violent reckoning and a courtroom struggle in which loyalty becomes inseparable from revenge. Presented by Lorenzo Carcaterra as a true account, Sleepers tells a harrowing story of institutional brutality, lasting trauma and men trying to answer a wrong that has never left them.