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THREE MEN - TWO CONVICTIONS - ONE LAST SCORE - NO MORE CHANCES
Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from
incarceration to liberation. DOG EAT DOG is the story of three men
fresh out of prison who now have the task of adapting to civilian
life. The California three strikes law looms over them, but what
the hell, they're going to do it their way. Troy, an aloof
mastermind, seeks an uncomplicated, clean life but cannot get away
from his hatred for the system. Diesel is on the mob's payroll and
interest in his suburban home and nagging wife is waning. The loose
cannon of the trio, Mad Dog, is possessed by true demons within,
that lead him from one explosive situation to the next. One last
big hit, one more jackpot, and they'll be set for life. Troy
constructs the perfect crime and they pull it off, but it is still
not enough to prevent a denouement that has a grim and violent
inevitability about it.
'No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity' - Richard III,
Act 1, Scene 2 An angry and mercilessly suspenseful novel about an
ex-con's attempt to negotiate the "straight world" and his swan
dive back into the paradoxical security of crime. It is airtight in
its construction, almost photorealistic in its portrayal of L.A.
lowlife and utterly knowledgeable about the terrors of liberty, the
high of the quick score and the rage that makes the finger tighten
on the trigger of the gun. No Beast So Fierce was Eddie Bunker's
debut novel and has the searing intensity of a novel based
precisely on experience, with Bunker having spent most of his early
life in maximum security penitentiaries for a variety of offences
including armed robbery. It has been suggested that Tarantino draws
on No Beast So Fierce for the botched robbery in Reservoir Dogs, a
film in which Bunker plays the character of Mr Blue.
In Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was--at seventeen--the youngest inmate ever in San Quentin. His hard-won experiences on L.A.'s meanest streets and in and out of prison gave him the material to write some of the grittiest and most affecting novels of our time. From smoking a joint in the gas chamber to leaving fingerprints on a knife connected to a serial kiler, from Hollywood's steamy undersde to swimming in the Neptune pool at San Simeon, Bunker delivers a memoir as colorful as any of his novels and as compelling as the life he's lead.
Seven stories from the papers of one of America's finest crime
authors
Roger doesn't mean for the preacher and his wife to die. Released
less than a year earlier from San Quentin, he's trying to make a
living the only way he knows how: theft. His latest heist goes
perfectly until his car breaks down. Sirens are closing in when an
old black preacher stops to give him a lift. The police at the
roadblock kill the elderly couple, but in the eyes of the law it's
Roger's fault. And he will die in the gas chamber at San
Quentin--unless he can break out first. Roger's incredible story
anchors this collection of short fiction by Edward Bunker, who knew
better than anyone what it means to be a criminal, inside and
outside of prison. In these stories, which were unpublished at the
time of his death in 2005, he shows again the talent that made him
such a remarkable writer.
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++++ The Development Of The Vowel Of The Unaccented Inital Syllable
In Italian Edward Bunker Schlatter University of
Wisconsin--Madison, 1913
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The Animal Factory goes deep into San Quentin, a world of violence and paranoia, where territory and status are ever-changing and possibly fatal commodities. Ron Decker is a newbie, a drug dealer whose shot at a short two-year stint in the can is threatened from inside and outside. He's got to keep a spotless record or it's ten to life. But at San Quentin, no man can steer clear of the Brotherhoods, the race wars, the relentlessness. It soon becomes clear that some inmates are more equal than others; Earl Copen is one of them, an old-timer who has learned not just to survive but to thrive behind bars. Not much can surprise him-but the bond he forms with Ron startles them both; it's a true education of a felon.
Raised within the confines of a system that has done nothing but provide him with pain, Alex Hamilton's frustration and anger are completely natural--and inherently dangerous. Since his parents split up, Alex has been constantly running from foster homes and institutions, yearning to be with his father, a broken man who cannot give his son the home he desperately needs. The only constant in Alex's life is no-good, criminally-minded peers, who are all too ready to plant illegal ideas in an intelligent mind. Bunker writes, "His unique potential would develop into unique destructiveness."
Dog Eat Dog, Bunker's fourth novel, follows Troy Cameron, a reformatory graduate like Bunker. A terrifying and brutal narrative, the novel tracks his lawless spree in the company of two other reform school alumni, Diesel Carson and Mad Dog Cain. Dog Eat Dog is a novel of excruciating authenticity, with great moral and social resonance, and it could only have been written by Edward Bunker, who has been there.
Ronald Decker guilty of a first offence, minor drug dealing charge
is put away in San Quentin where he is befriended by "old lag",
Earl Copen. Copen is well in with the White Brotherhood just one of
the many White, Black and Chicano gangs in constant brutal conflict
in San Quentin. Their growing friendship is tested by Ron's
rejection of a homosexual advance by another con which leads to an
act of ultimately fatal violence and in despair they seize a remote
chance of escape. Bunker writes of the sordid, horrifically violent
and lawless prison life where life is cheap and death by shiv
awaits anyone looking the wrong way with a great literary quality
and at a merciless pace that never falters and with the realism and
knowledge gained from spending over 25 years in prison.
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