The Pact (2002 book)

The Pact: Three Young Black Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream is a 2002 New York Times Bestselling non-fiction autobiography by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, and Lisa Frazier.

The Pact narrates the lives of Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis, and George Jenkins, three young black men that grew up in a community of violence, ignorance, and failure.

Despite managing to overcome enough obstacles to gain a scholarship and attend college, they still run into racism, mediocrity, and failure.

At one point the group debates giving up and dropping out of college, but are talked out of it by the school's guidance counselor, Carla Dickson.

[8] AudioFile criticized the narration for the audiobook, writing that "Since they presumably wrote the book, they should be able to emphasize words to get their meanings across.