Introduction

At the age of fifteen, these young men, through a messy thumb-pricking ceremony, swore allegiance to each other for life. By nineteen, they had gone their separate ways. Twelve years later, they find themselves together again, ostensibly for the wedding of one of their former mates.

Memories and Revelations

What character-changing tales do they remember from those early days growing up in their coastal town during the 50s and 60s? As they find out, via a postwedding gathering of the Harbour Rats, many very personal incidents are revealed—incidents that the others never knew.

Stories That Shape and Bind

Stories of misadventure, romance, terror, and mysticism. Stories that shaped their futures. Stories that bound them together again. There are no friends quite like the first ones.