From Rockaway blood brothers Cross and Sampson are about

Cross and Sampson are about to find out how their street training and almost telepathic mutual trust stack up against the darkest impulses of military authority

Set against the backdrop of a Europe on the brink of collapse

but then a shooting is called in-and it fits the professor's description to the last detail

Artemus Ward

but between us and God

From Rockaway blood brothers Cross and Sampson are aboutTimmy and Chowderhead and Peg are lifeguards. They spend summers sitting in those tall chairs, smoking dope and staring at the waves, swatting insects, tormenting seagulls. Winters they work shit jobs like unloading trucks at Mickey's Deli. At night, winter and summer, they drink. Drink and get rowdy. Then there's Alex, the girl who gets away, not only from old boyfriend Timmy but also from "Rotaway" on scholarship to a rich kid's college in New