Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders (60 page)

“A chilling story of toxic friendship and psychopathic amorality.”

—
Library Journal

“In the tradition of
Compulsion, In Cold Blood,
and
The Executioner’s Song, Judgment Ridge
has the tragic inevitability of a great novel. I

cannot remember when I read a book that was at once so compelling and so harrowing.”

—Madeleine Blais, author of
In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle

“A masterpiece of investigative reporting that provides sophisticated, bone-chilling insights into the Dartmouth murders and the inner work-ings of the minds of two seemingly ‘normal’ teenage boys.”

—William S. Pollack, author of
Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the

Myths of Boyhood

“
Judgment Ridge
is a tragic and fascinating story of two boys and their profoundly disturbing friendship. If you wonder how ‘bored’ boys can become violent boys, if you worry about the vacuum in which American boys are being raised today, you will find this beautifully written book a compelling read.”

—Michael Thompson, coauthor of
Raising Cain: Protecting the

Emotional Life of Boys

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Copyright
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JUDGMENT RIDGE
. Copyright © 2003 by Dick Lehr and Mitchell Zuckoff. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader December 2008 ISBN 978-0-06-182504-0

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