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Life Sentence The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimoreâs Deadliest Gang Leader
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Author:
Mark Bowden
Publisher:
Atlantic Monthly Press
Date:
April 11, 2023
In a deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight gang members in prison.
What The Reviewers Say
Bowden...is well placed to tell the story.
The masterful yarn is a riveting true narrative about an FBI investigation that landed eight criminal bosses behind bars in the city profiled in the popular American television crime drama The Wire.
A sad, and sadly familiar, tale.
Life Sentence is not pessimistic, despite the hopelessness at the heart of its story. Instead, it offers many avenues for change and improvement if only the proper political will can be summoned and applied..
