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Do or Die: For the First Time, Members of L.A.'s Most Notorious Teenage Gangs--The Crips and Bloods--Speak for Themselves.
Do or Die For the First Time Members of LA's Most Notorious Teenage GangsThe Crips and BloodsSpeak for Themselves Author:Leon Bing Do or Die is the first insider account of teenage gangs--the lives, loves, and battles of children who kill--from the only journalist ever allowed inside this closed and dangerous world. This is no West Side Story. — Welcome to a world where teenagers wear colostomy bags and have scrapbooks filled with funeral invitations; where a young ... more »man, after being shot in the chest, drives himself to the hospital; where another youngster, caught in crossfire, uses his girlfriend as a human shield; where teenage gangsters are kidnapped, tortured, and held for six-figure ransoms; where kids hum the latest movie's theme music while killing people. It's a world of clickheads, sherms, bangers, ballers, and mummyheads; a world where the strongest feelings of family come from other gang members; a world where the most potent feelings of self-worth come from murder.« less