{"product_id":"sleepers-3","title":"Sleepers","description":"#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of four men who take the law into their own hands.\n\nThis 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.\n\nUntil one disastrous summer afternoon.\n\nOn 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.\n\nYears 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.\n\nRevenge.\n\nTo 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.\n\nIf they get caught this time, they only have one thing left to lose: their lives.\n\nPraise for Sleepers\n\n“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\n\n“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\n\n“A gut-wrenching piece of work . . . [Lorenzo] Carcaterra’s graphic narrative grips like gunfire in a dark alley.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution\n\n“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\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0345404114\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: LFV.0345404114.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Carcaterra, Lorenzo\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Mass market paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book is in very good condition.  Clean with little to no signs of wear or markings highlights.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Books for Life","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45588420034757,"sku":"LFV.0345404114.VG","price":7.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/2914\/4773\/files\/0345404114-0_2cef6352-283e-4941-90c5-6dc27417aff7.jpg?v=1767650987","url":"https:\/\/www.booksforlife.store\/products\/sleepers-3","provider":"Books for Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}