Bøger af David Ivy

Three childhood friends found themselves entwined in the vicissitudes of life on the mean streets of the South Bronx, where the invisible hands of greed lacked empathy. In a desperate attempt to escape poverty, Malcolm, Eric, and Yadiel actuated by a feeling of hopelessness, embraced a path in the streets that lead them into a life of gangs, arson, murder, and drugs. By 1977, on the gritty streets of the South Bronx, buildings were going up in smoke all over the city at a time when arson was the answer to everything. As Greed told the story of life and death, heroin filled the veins of those who tried to escape the horrors of the world through a delusive feeling of euphoria. By the early eighties, crack, a very potent form of cocaine, surfaced on the streets of New York, and with it came a profitable curse that conveyed death and destruction everywhere it went.

Kevin life began on the notorious streets of Chicago Illinois where he experienced at a young age the horrors of the world in one of it's purest form. After witnessing his childhood best friends lose his life in a drive-by shooting on the playground, Kevin's life and the way he viewed the world would never be the same even after moving away from the gang infested street of Chicago, Kevin and his brothers found themselves down South in a neighborhood known as Orange Mound in the midst of drugs, gangs, and murders. Quickly they learned up North or down South, when it rained, bloodstains appeared on the concrete.