The Last Summer of the Death Warriors

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One is dying of cancer. The others planning a murder. When Pancho arrives at St. Anthonys Home he knows his time there will be short: If his plans succeed hell soon be arrested for the murder of his sisters killer. But then hes assigned to help D.Q. whose brain cancer has slowed neither his spirit nor his mouth. D.Q. tells Pancho all about his "Death Warriors Manifesto " which will help him to live out his last days fully--ideally he says with the love of the beautiful Marisol. As Pancho tracks down his sisters murderer he finds himself falling under the influence of D.Q. and Marisol who is everything D.Q. said she would be;and he is inexorably drawn to a decision: to honor his sister and her death or embrace the way of the Death Warrior and choose life. Nuanced in its characters and surprising in its plot developments--both soulful and funny--Last Summer is a buddy novel of the highest kind: the story of a friendship that helps two young men become all they can be.