Wednesday, January 22, 2003

A shattered Peace

‘My name is Nathan Chester Landers - or is it?’ he writes in his memoir, a 148-page indictment of his childhood. ‘A Walking Peace’ was supposed to be just a book. But what began as a rare account from inside the world of discarded children - pecked out on a laptop and filled with aliases instead of real names - has changed everything for Landers. In the course of writing the book, he not only found his birth mother but heard her stunning revelation: that Landers is the product of a 26-year-old crime, the rape by two city officers that she alleges she suffered as a 14-year-old runaway.