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  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407059396
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

Sleepers




An unforgettable true story of friendship, loyalty and revenge, set against the unmistakable backdrop of New York City. Sleepers was adapted into an award-winning film, featuring Hollywood stars Dustin Hoffman, Brad Pitt, Robert de Niro and Kevin Bacon. A moving and shocking coming-of-age story that is a must read for fans of the cult film, Stand by Me.

An unforgettable true story of friendship, loyalty, violence and revenge, set against the unmistakable backdrop of New York City. Now a major film starring Dustin Hoffman, Brad Pitt, Robert de Niro and Kevin Bacon.

Four boys - lifelong friends who shared everything - in the confines of New York City's Hell's Kitchen, content with playing as many pranks as they can without getting caught. Until one disastrous afternoon.

When a harmless scheme goes terribly wrong, the boys are left facing a year's imprisonment in the Wilkinson Home for Boys, and the beatings and abuse they find there will change their lives forever.

In the years that follow, one will become a lawyer, one a reporter, and two will grow to become hitmen for-hire. But for all of them, the legacy of Wilkinson - the pain, fear and anger - still rages on within. Only revenge will erase it.

One final, audacious stand against a corrupt system. If they are caught this time, the only thing to lose is their lives.

  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407059396
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

About the author

Lorenzo Carcaterra

Lorenzo Carcaterra was born in New York where he still lives. He was a reporter on the New York Daily News before he wrote A Safe Place. His second book, Sleepers, became a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Praise for Sleepers

A brilliant, troubling, important book

Jonathan Kellerman

A compulsive true story

The Times

Compelling

USA Today

Fabulous, unbelievably good

Entertainment Weekly

Undeniably powerful, an enormously affecting and intensely human story

Washington Post