Ed Gannett entered the world as the secret child of a teenager, raised in the shadows of Brooklyn and Queens. By the time he was 18, his mother had thrown his belongings onto the sidewalk in plastic bags. He slept in his car in the same park where he’d once been kidnapped as a child. 

But Eddie didn’t become a statistic. He became a fighter. 

A Boy Named Eddie is a raw, unflinching memoir of a childhood marked by abuse, neglect, and betrayal, and the extraordinary resilience that transformed trauma into triumph. From the streets of New York to the NYPD Police Academy, from homelessness to building a multi-million dollar business, Ed’s journey proves that your past may shape you, but it never has to imprison you. 

Key Themes: 

• Surviving childhood abuse and neglect 

• Overcoming homelessness 

• Finding forgiveness without forgetting 

• Building success from nothing