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Heat on the street

2009
Undercover FBI agent Bobby Cortez comes face-to-face with his own troubled past when he is assigned to take down a dangerous gang in his old neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.

Street scene

a novel
2002
A gang rivalry ensues after an African-American asks a white girl to dance.

Street gangs

1983
An investigation of gangs in cities and suburbs today, including the reasons for their formation, gang violence, and ways some communities have tried to reduce gang problems.

Retaliation

a novel
2007
A violent attack on seventeen-year-old Tashera Odom by high school girls in Washington, D.C., has dangerous repercussions for the rest of the family, including her secretive mother Sheila, and her brother Khalil, who is willing to rejoin his gang in order to get revenge.

Prep

2005
A one-time tag artist, Nick tries to come to terms with the death of a friend, to protect the brother of his would-be girlfriend, to escape the violence of wealthy New York City prep-school hoods, and to figure out who he really is.

Queens reigns supreme

Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the rise of the hip-hop hustler
2005
Re-creates the rise and fall of the drug dealers who dominated Queens in the 1980s and explores how those figures have be idealized by hip-hop artists.

Running with the devil

the true story of the ATF's infiltration of the Hells Angels
2009
Describes how two undercover agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms infiltrated the Hells Angels, an outlaw motorcycle club of Arizona, and the bust in 2003 when fifty people were arrested and the bureau seized mass quantities of weaponry, which included explosives and napalm.

Gangs

2013
Describes what gangs are, the types of gangs, what gangs and gang members do, why people join gangs, how to say no, and how someone can get out.

The mystery of Ura Senke

2005
You, the reader, are searching for a priceless tea bowl, but you are kidnapped by a vicious Japanese gang. You decide how the story will go.

Gangs and gangsters

stories of public enemies
2010
Provides short biographies of some of America's most infamous gangs and gangsters, describing the criminal actions of Jessie James, John Dillinger, John Gotti, Stanley Tookie Williams, and others.

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