gangs

The good: New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons, the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. The bad: Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad boy. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. NYPD captains, district attorneys, mayoral candidates, media kingpins, and one shockingly beautiful magazine editor are all pushing their own agendas on both sides of the law. And the dead: Back off or die is the clear message Nick receives as he investigates for a story of his own. Heedless, and perhaps in love with his beautiful editor, Nick endures humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson knows.

O'Connor is caught in the middle of a gang dispute between the Aurora Anglos and the Ojibwe Reservation Red Boyz, a situation that turns deadly when the Red Boyz leader and his wife are found murdered.

Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which they find themselves "outsiders.".

This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.

In 1863, a man returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer and gang rival.

Paul Varderman, a secondary student in an English Catholic School, is a loner until, just as he is becoming friends with "the freaks, " the school bully encourages Paul to join his gang and gives him a knife to carry as an incentive.

Fifteen-year-old Allie Carson gets ready to go shopping, never dreaming her life is about to be ended by a bullet.

As teenage violence runs wild through the streets of the Bronx, six members of the Coney Island Dominators find themselves fighting against murder, violence, and mayhem in a desperate fight to survive.

Doc Kane is days away from being paroled after serving sixteen years of a twenty-year sentence, but he puts his freedom in jeopardy when he realizes there are some old debts that he must pay before being released.

Describes the history and status of youth gangs in the United States; provides information about signs and symbols, recruitment, initiation, and other factors that indicate gang activity; and includes suggestions for effective intervention.