First published 1948; cover shown is the 1964 Penguin Books (UK) paperback edition.Cover art by Germano Facetti. 128p.
This is the diary of one night of brainstorm and violence in the life of a teenage boy - a night of initiation into sex and sudden death and heroism.
The lonely, introspective mind of George LaMain had been nourished on Kipling and Dumas. Seeing his father mercilessly flogged by a fashionable sports columnist, the boy simply picks up a gun and goes after the bully. To kill.
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