Imagine that you are the oldest of five children, and one day out of the blue comes word that your youngest sibling David, your baby brother of younger memories, has been horribly injured. You find out that he actually was brutally attacked and has sustained terrifying, life-threatening injuries. For three agonizing days and nights he hangs on to precious life, then fails and dies. A husband and father is gone, taken away too soon from those whom he loved and who loved him. This is what happened to Doreen McGettigan, and here she begins this account of the survivors’ journey through the initial grief and shock, the ordeal of dealing with the media, the torment of handling the contortions of the judicial system, and their disappointment in the motives of the district attorney and the performance of the presiding judge. Compounding these factors is the complete disregard and lack of feeling concerning the murder of her brother by the murderers themselves and their families. She also intertwines insights into her own grieving, depression, and feelings of being defeated. The book ends more happily, looking forward.

I could not put this book down. It is an extremely well written account which draws you in, holds you there, then shocks, amazes and astounds you as you read.
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