
#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,...
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Hittade denna i min mammas bokhylla,minns inte hur gammal jag var. Läste den med hjärtat bultande i halsgropen. Hatade vakterna, hejade på pojkarna-senare de förstörda männen som såg till att deras plågoandar ÄNTLIGEN fick betala för sina hemska gärningar.Närjag i slutet av boken insåg att detta var en självbiografisk bok ville jag bara gråta.