Simon Says

This is a chilling tale of murder and teenage lives gone astray, in a place where guns and Bibles hold powerful sway. On a frigid New Year's Eve, just twenty months after the Columbine Massacre, three teenage boys carefully plotted the murder of a schoolmate and his grandparents at their mountain hideaway outside of Colorado Springs. The boys' leader, Simon Sue, was responsible for strong-arming the others into believing they were members of a secret paramilitary organisation - and that their very lives depended on successfully executing the organisation's 'mission'."Simon Says" tells the page-turning story of how these boys' lives could have gone so horribly astray, how their parents' assumed all was right in their sons' lives, and what the fallout of the grisly murders was on all the families. Through painstaking research, journalist Kathryn Eastburn gets into the minds of these boys to reveal a place where the rites of passage to young manhood, to acceptance, come at an exorbitant price.

ISBN 0306817543   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780306817540 (What's this?)   Pages 320 Publisher The Perseus Books Group   Volumes 1 Imprint Da Capo Press Inc   Published in Cambridge, MA Format Paperback   Height (mm) 210 Publication date 05 Feb 2009   Width (mm) 140 Library of Congress HV   Academic level General DEWEY 364.15230922

"(A) chilling piece of reportage about Americans, guns and paranoia." Scotland on Sunday"

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