Amazon.com description: Product Description: 'It's time you knew the truth', 'about your father' 'what about him'? 'His first wife', she said. 'She didn't die of cancer'. 'How did she die'? 'He murdered her'. At the age of fourteen Lorenzo Carcaterra made a shocking discovery. Behind closed doors he and his mother survived the erratic, violent outbursts of his father. A powerful man, he tempered his rage with affection. To a young boy he was a man to both love and fear. Until Lorenzo learned a shattering fact that forever changed his life. His father was a murderer.