Levi Katznelson

Levi Katznelson is a seventeen-year-old high school boy who lives with his parents and his older brother, Boaz, in a small community outside Boston, Massachusetts. Levi loves and admires his older brother and had always wanted to be just like him. Boaz has been gone three years while serving with the Marines on a foreign battlefield.

When Boaz comes home, Levi knows immediately that something is very wrong with him. He confides in his best friends, Pearl and Zim, but they think Levi is overreacting. He tries to talk to his parents and grandfather but they all agree that Boaz will be fine. He'll be his old self again. He just needs time to readjust to civilian life.

Levi does some investigating and learns that his brother has plans - plans that are much different than what he told his family. Boaz is uncommunicative and remote. He...