Scout Camp: Sex, Death, and Secret Societies Inside the Boy Scouts of America

Author/Contributor(s):	Renner, James
Publisher:	Citadel
Date:	6/29/2027
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In this timely and deeply personal true crime memoir, acclaimed journalist and author James Renner explores the dark side of an American institution and the traumatic—even deadly—repercussions of long-buried secrets.

In the summer of 1995, at the largest Boy Scout camp in Ohio, a night of violence ended with one counselor dead and another hospitalized. The death was ruled “accidental.” It wouldn’t be the last death associated with Seven Ranges Reservation.

James Renner was a counselor at Seven Ranges that year. He knew firsthand that the 900-acre camp was not the safe getaway it was portrayed to be. His experiences there taught him many life lessons.  One of them was that keeping secrets was a Scout’s duty. No matter how dark the secrets.

Renner takes readers on a journey back to that tumultuous summer and exposes a clandestine society that left indelible scars on the Scouts and the staff. For Renner, it meant opening up about his twisted upbringing, his issues with trust and sexuality, and a lifetime of self-medicating. The result is a no-holds-barred, vitally important true crime memoir.