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A novel you will never forget... This powerful and breathtaking novel is the story of four cadets who have become bloodbrothers. Together they will encounter the hell of hazing and the rabid, raunchy and dangerously secretive atmosphere of an arrogant and proud military institute. They will experience the violence. The passion. The rage. The friendship. The loyalty. The betrayal. Together, they will brace themselves for the brutal transition to manhood... and one will not survive. With all the dramatic brilliance he brought to The Great Santini, Pat Conroy sweeps you into the turbulent world of these four friends -- and draws you deep into the heart of his rebellious hero, Will McLean, an outsider forging his personal code of honor, who falls in love with a whimsical beauty... and who undergoes a transition more remarkable then he ever imagined possible.

"[Conroy's] book is at once a suspense-ridden duel between conflicting ideals of manhood and a paean to brother love that ends in betrayal and death...a novel that virtually quivers with excitement and conviction."

Frank Rose, Washington Post Book World, 10/19/1980

"Mr. Conroy has found a great subject and has produced a book so superior to his other efforts that it might have been written by a different person...[but]...Pat Conroy's creative energies are sidetracked during the course of this book. Ultimately, he is more concerned in posing and solving clever puzzles than in developing the character of the human beings inside those puzzles. Consequently, the reader remains unmoved...by the ultimate betrayal that ends the novel."

Harry Crews, New York Times, 12/07/1980

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