In the bucolic days of the early 1970s a violent murder of a teenager only days before high school graduation stuns a peaceful community and leads to a pact that dictates the lives of three inseparable friends. The Northeast Philly Boys winds from the neighborhood to Vietnam and back to the city at large over twenty years while a deathly secret is protected. About the Author In his second book Gerald C Davis delivers a geography-driven thriller from the neighborhoods near and dear to his heart. He lives and works adjacent to Northeast Philadelphia in South Jersey while running a food pantry for the challenged population in the area and enjoying his four children.