Lorenzo, Michael, John & Tommy shared everything
- the laughter & the bruises of an impoverished childhood on New York's violent West Side. Until one of their pranks misfired & they were sent to a reformatory school. Twelve months of systematic mental, physical & sexual abuse left the boys transformed for ever. Eleven years later, one of them had become a journalist, one a lawyer
- & the other two killers fro the mob. In a chance encounter they came face to face with one of their torturers & shot him dead in front of several witnesses. The trial that followed brought the four friends together again in one last, audacious stand
- & a courtroom climax as gripping as any John Grisham novel.