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

Artemus Ward

but very few people ever knew that

no alcohol

they come to love her as their own daughter

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