Senseless killings by adolescents drew native son and Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Powers back to Hannibal, Missouri, in 1997. Probing the crimes, he confronts shadows in three different Hannibals: his own boyhood, Mark Twain's earlier 19th-century community, and today's town with its lost teens and fractured families. The author appears in Ken Burns' Mark Twain documentary on PBS and co-wrote the bestseller Flags of Our Fathers. Audie Award finalist. "Disturbingly powerful."—Publishers Weekly