- Brett Peruzzi, Ebooks ReviewsA MUST READ Brilliantly portrays a life and place most Americans can only imagine. Beginning to end...a riveting account of one of America's worst urban nightmares.- Brett Peruzzi, Ebooks Reviewsreviews: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5This shocking saga details the year and a half investigative journalist M. Rutledge McCall spent living in the largest, most violent ghetto in America: California's South Central Los Angeles.
During his time in the 'hood, gang members were sending bullet-riddled corpses to the county morgue at the rate of one every 11 hours. After spending months in gang turf on a regular basis, sufficient mutual trust and respect grew between gang members and McCall that they allowed him to be involved in every aspect of their lives: to go where they went, to see what they saw, to do what they did. ...The first white outsider ever allowed complete access to modern, big-city, black and Latino gangs.
The coincidental timing of McCall's research encompassed some of the most violent episodes ever to grip L.A.: the Rodney King beating and the trial of the police officers involved, the Latasha Harlins murder by a Korean grocer, and the deadliest riot in modern American history.
The events that this writer witnessed and participated in, not only shattered his perceptions of racism in America today, they shattered his entire life. The sequence of some of the events in this stunning account has been shuffled, in order to protect the guilty...the author included.