Lefty — John Benton

Every choice made by eighteen-year-old Lefty Taggart hinged on one fact: he had an insatiable need for heroin. Teaming up with another streetwise junkie named Oscar, he entered the double-dealing world of drug connections, theft schemes, and fugitives fleeing the law. Minutes before undercover policemen closed in on Lefty and Oscar, two compassionate strangers offered them a chance to stop running--and start life all over again. For one of them, however, it turned out to be too late.