The Different Wes Moore: One Identify, Two Fates

In December 2000, the Baltimore 
Solar ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a neighborhood pupil who had simply acquired a Rhodes Scholarship. The identical paper additionally ran a collection of articles about 4 younger males who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed theft. The police had been nonetheless trying to find two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore. 

Wes simply couldn’t shake off the unsettling coincidence, or the inkling that the 2 shared rather more than house in the identical newspaper. After following the story of the theft, the manhunt, and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the opposite Wes, now a convicted assassin serving a life sentence with out the opportunity of parole. His letter tentatively requested the questions that had been haunting him: 
Who’re you? How did this occur?

That letter led to a correspondence and relationship which have lasted for a number of years. Over dozens of letters and jail visits, Wes found that the opposite Wes had had a life not not like his personal: Each had had tough childhoods, each had been fatherless; they’d frolicked on comparable corners with comparable crews, and each had run into bother with the police. At every stage of their younger lives that they had come throughout comparable moments of resolution, but their decisions would cause them to astonishingly totally different destinies.

Advised in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of unusual redemption, 
The Different Wes Moore tells the story of a technology of boys looking for their approach in a hostile world.