Ordinary Heroes - Based on a True Story (Hardcover)

Ordinary Heroes recreates the sights, sounds and textures of a world gone by a world of freedom, innocence and mystery where boys leave home at 6:00 in the morning and return home for dinner a world of sleep outs and midnight escapades. 14 year old Randy s life begins as a near-death experience. But cerebral palsy aside by 1959, he loves Sandra Dee, Sandy Koufax, the Dodgers, Wolfman Jack and a girl named Daisy Clover in that order. Things begin to pop when the boys poke around the crumbling Jefferson place and discover perplexing evidence pointing to something very different than the official version of their neighborhood hero s death confusing clues, threatening notes, phone calls and violence. If 19 year old Scotty Jefferson s death is an open and shut, police slam dunk why all the fuss? Ordinary Heroes salutes the goodness of boys everywhere