The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream [Paperback]

ANEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER

A remarkable story about the power of friendship.

Chosen byEssenceto be among the forty most influential African Americans, the three doctors grew up in the streets of Newark, facing city life’s temptations, pitfalls, even jail. But one day these three young men made a pact. They promised each other they would all become doctors, and stick it out together through the long, difficult journey to attaining that dream. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt are not only friends to this day—they are all doctors.

This is a story about joining forces and beating the odds. A story about changing your life, and the lives of those you love most... together.

Introduction

1. Dreaming Big
2. Home
3. Ma
4. Common Ground
5. Caged
6. A Big Break
7. Hope

George on Peer Pressure

8. Summer Odyssey
9. Earth Angel
10. A Different World

Rameck on Giving Back

11. Rap
12. Lovesick
13. Access Med
14. Old Ties
15. D.W.B.
16. Becoming Doctors

Sam on Perseverance

17. Graduation
18. Goodbye
19. Home Again

Epilogue
Acknowledgments

  Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins-- M.D., M.D., and D.M.D., respectively-- are something more than the sum of their degrees. --Newsday

[A] prescription for success. --The Philadelphia Enquirer

Eye-opening and moving...The Pactis a lesson in the power of peers. --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A powerful message of hope to inner-city youngsters. --The Dallas Morning News

While their story is sometimes tragic, sometimes funny and sometimes remarkable, it is always inspirational. --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Will inspire and entertain... The Pact is the impressive true story of three teenag boys from Newark, New Jersey, who became outstanding men. --Eló