Sonny\'s been an outsider all his life.
Only it isn\'t as easy as it sounds.....
But first Sonny\'s got to learn to be smart, take control of his life, and beat the monster.
Brooks seems to think that Sonny\'s got the talent to make it to the top -- to be a contender.
Sonny doesn\'t count on stepping into the middle of a drug war when he gets there -- or on tangling with a tough Harlem boxer-turned-cop named Alfred Brooks.
He\'s headed for New York City, where nobody can tell him what to do.
But Sonny wants out of the Res.
So far, Sonny\'s managed to harness his anger -- what he calls "the monster" -- in the boxing ring.
He has never fit into either world: the Moscondagas on the Reservation see him as white; whites see him as Indian.
Sonny\'s been an outsider all his life
