Written by Ishmael Beah. People magazine 4 stars: Terrifying, often graphic in prtraying violence he both witnessed and carried out as a barely adolescent soldier in Sierra Leone, 26-year-old Beah's story is also deeply moving, even uplifting. After rebel marauders murdered his family when he was 12, Beah roamed the countryside, sometimes alone, sometimes with other younger boys, often starving, always frightened. A desperate government teoop conscripted him, along with other boys, and he became a killing machine, fired up with cocaine and hallucinogens. Rehabilitated at 15, he moved in with his uncle and began a normal life, even attending a UNICEF conference in Manhattan. But on returning to Sierra Leone, Beah found warfare on his doorstep again and made a final escape to America.
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