In this unprecedented 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 Sandtown is
one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned
Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notorious
by David Simon’s classic HBO series “The Wire.” Drug deals
dominate street corners, and ruthless, casual violence abounds.
Montana Barronette grew up in the center of it all. He was the
leader of the gang “Trained to Go,” or TTG, and when he was
finally arrested and sentenced to life in prison, he had been
nicknamed “Baltimore’s Number One Trigger Puller.” Under
Tana’s reign, TTG dominated Sandtown. After a string of murders
are linked to TTG, each with dozens of witnesses too intimidated to
testify, three detectives set out to put Tana in prison for life.
For them, this was never about drugs: It was about serial murder.
Now an acclaimed journalist who spent his youth in the white
suburbs of Baltimore, Mark Bowden returns to the city with
exclusive access to the FBI files and unprecedented insight into
one of the city’s deadliest gangs and its notorious leader. As he
traces the rise and fall of TTG, Bowden uses wiretapped drug buys,
police interviews, undercover videos, text messages, social media
posts, trial transcripts, and his own ongoing conversations with
Tana’s family and community to create the most in-depth account
of an inner-city gang ever written. With his signature precision
and propulsive narrative, Mark Bowden positions Tana – as a boy,
a gang leader, a killer, and now a prisoner – in the context of
Baltimore and America, illuminating his path for what it really
was: a life sentence.
General
Imprint: |
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2023 |
Authors: |
Mark Bowden
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Dimensions: |
228 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8021-6242-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
0-8021-6242-8 |
Barcode: |
9780802162427 |
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