The Boys of the Dark: A Story of Betrayal and Redemption in the Deep South

by Robin Gaby Fisher

Book Overview

A story that garnered national attention, this is the harrowing tale of two men who suffered abuses at a reform school in Florida in the 1950s and 60s, and who banded together fifty years later to confront their attackers. Michael O'McCarthy and Robert W. Straley were teens when they were termed "incorrigible youth" by authorities and ordered to attend the Florida School for Boys. They discovered in Marianna, the "City of Southern Charm," an immaculately...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312595395
• ISBN13: 9780312595395
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.6"