PI Spenser knight-errant of the Back Bay returns in this stellar addition to the iconic New York Timesbestselling series from author Ace AtkinsWhat started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges but thats exactly what happenedThis is Blackburn Massachusetts where zero tolerance for minors is a way of lifeLeading the movement is tough-as-nails Judge Joe Scali who gives speeches about getting tough on todays wild youth But Dillons mother who knows other Blackburn kids who are doing hard time for minor infractions isnt buying Scalis line She hires Spenser to find the truth behind the draconian sentencingFrom the Harbor Islands to a gated Florida community Spenser and trusted ally Hawk follow a trail through the Boston underworld with links to a shadowy corporation that runs New Englands private prisons They eventually uncover a culture of corruption and cover-ups in the old mill town where hundreds of kids are sent off to for-profit juvie jails.
