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Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This riveting sequel to My Bloody Life traces Reymundo Sanchez's struggle to create a "normal" life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his past. Sanchez illustrates how the Latin King motto "once a king, always a king" rings true and details the difficulty and danger of leaving that life behind. Filled with heart-pounding scenes of his backslide into drugs, sex, and violence, Once...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
Description
Looks at the life of a member of Chicago's Puerto Rican gang the Latin Queens, the female counterpoint of the Latin Kings, and details the years of sexual abuse that began at the age of five and the consequences of breaking the gang's code of silence when she appeared on Oprah Winfrey's local talk show.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A legend in the biker community, Peter 'Big Pete' James was the most revered gangster in the Chicagoland Outlaws. He first perfected his skills with the Hells Angels, the Outlaws' chief rival, before persuading thousands of disgruntled members from splintered Outlaw Clubs to unite. Together they formed a powerful criminal syndicate involved in extortion, contract murders, drugs and arms trafficking, money laundering, and assassinations. Then a shocking...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In Chicago in mid-twentieth century amid the haze and smoke of urban renewal and the sounds of the wrecking balls and bulldozers, there lived two men, both street-savvy, one Black, one Irish, one young, one old and both leaders of their clans. Each ruled with an iron fist. Each embodied the fighting spirit of the turbulent 1960s. One was David Barksdale, the Black Disciples leader, a Black youth club that would give birth to America's largest street...
Author
Publisher
[Luther Butler]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After a childhood marked by abuse, Pacc Butler left his violent father for the streets of Chicago and joined a street gang to give him the sense of family he'd never known. As he spirals into a life of violent crime, he is given a chance at redemption.
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