When he returns to Illinois and the gang culture on the south side of Fairfield after six years in Colorado, high school senior Luis Fuentes, who dreams of becoming an astronaut, falls for a girl and enters a dark world after learning some disturbing news about his family.
When he returns to Illinois and the gang culture on the south side of Fairfield after six years in Colorado, high school senior Luis Fuentes, who dreams of becoming an astronaut, falls for a girl and enters a dark world after learning some disturbing news about his family.
At age 12, Brenda Paz was affiliated with a powerful Los Angeles clique of the Mara Salvatrucha, a violent street gang. By 17, she was dead. Journalist Logan offers a gripping exploration of Paz's life within the group and sheds light on a criminal network that affects countless…
This book, like a medieval geography, is in effect a collection of traveler's tales. The travelers, passing through dangerous and exotic territory, are shocked, stultified, disoriented by what they see. [The book] is the gallery in the ancestral mansion of your bad dreams.-Back …
Examines New York's gangs of the nineteenth century and charts their influence on the underworld in the twentieth century.
Examines New York's gangs of the nineteenth century and charts their influence on the underworld in the twentieth century.
Examines New York's gangs of the nineteenth century and charts their influence on the underworld in the twentieth century.
