The rest of the title is: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully. The author was sent to a boarding school in the Alps of Europe and for that 1 year he was terrorized by especially one boy and a few followers of him. The author's father had left him a very nice watch that these boys through out the window & was lost in the snow, that along with the other instances of bullying really stuck with him. The author left the school that spring & didn't return, his mother re-married and life went on with lots of changes for him. The author though as he got older could not let it go what the bully had done and as he became an adult and a writer used his research abilities to find out what became of the bully. This is where the story really begins because the bully was part of a very elaborate scan/con that basically stole money from people desperate for business loans they hooked up with the bully leading them to a sort of European consortium that promised big but stole their interest money and more. The group was caught and prosecuted in the US and the bully and a couple others did time. The author tracked down the bully and met with him a few times over a few years not letting on that he knew the bully's details of this or that he tracked him down because he was the bully. Eventually before the book was written that author did come clean about it & well makes for an interesting ending. Good read and very interesting story, also very impressive how much research and interviews went into this.
There are 2 WL for this book on PBS so will probably post & mail off at some point.
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