A journalist’s memoir that blends investigative reporting with a coming-of-age account of life in Manhattan’s private-school scene in the early 1990s. It traces how admiration and trust can be manipulated by an adult who cultivated intimacy with his teenage students.

At fourteen, the narrator idolized a prominent tennis coach. After an attempted abduction and the coach’s subsequent death, authorities uncovered a pattern of predatory behavior and startling hidden spaces that contradicted his public persona.

Two decades later the author revisits those events, using interviews, archival research and personal records to understand how predators operate within seemingly protected circles and how trauma reshapes memory and identity.

• Investigative memoir meeting true crime
• Examination of manipulation and grooming
• Portrait of 1990s Manhattan prep-school life
• Combines reportage, interviews and personal reflection

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