the prestigious East Coast prep school in 1968, he felt there was something odd about it. The first feeling hit him like a slap in the face. Because it was a slap in the face from the teacher whose room was across the hall from his. The headmaster had told the incoming students that some of the school's traditions may seem "strange and new." And they quickly devolved from that slap to things far worse. But to Jack Coe, it seemed impossible to get out. He narrates the things that happened to him in shocking detail. It's a story that took him years to live and more than a half-century to come to terms with.