Street Raised

"Street Raised" by Hansen, Pearce, published by Wildside Press LLC. Oakland, 1984. Skinheads prowl the streets, a serial killer talks to God through the business end of a butcher knife, and Mexican dope runners dump their chained enemies into the river alive. Navigating a blasted landscape of feral dogs, crooked cops, and violent criminals is Speedy, an ex-con come home to a litany of problems: the cops want his ass back in prison, his friends are being murdered by the local drug lords, and he still can't figure if his ex-girlfriend wants him or wants him dead. As the tension squeezes tighter and tighter, Speedy enlists the help of his homeless crackhead brother and his bouncer best friend on a suicide mission towards the one grimy light at the end of the tunnel: a big pile of drug money, just waiting to be stolen from the thugs that guard it. Speedy has raised, and he will take whatever he damn well pleases. For better or worse, he is what he is: a savage motherfucker. "Street Raised is a scar of a book, but it's a beautifully healed scar." - Joe Lansdale "Imagine James Ellroy coupled with George R. R. Martin and overseen by Charles Willeford." - Ken Bruen "This is literary crime of the highest order, on par with the work of the great Eddie Bunker." - Jason Starr "Hansen's delivery is nothing like Cormac McCarthy's, but this novel possessed a few visceral and nasty surprises that put it in the same territory of viciousness and macabre grandeur as Blood Meridian." - Laird Barron Review "Street Raised is a scar of a book, but it's a beautifully healed scar." - Joe Lansdale "Imagine James Ellroy coupled with George R. R. Martin and overseen by Charles Willeford." - Ken Bruen "This is literary crime of the highest order, on par with the work of the great Eddie Bunker." - Jason Starr "Hansen's delivery is nothing like Cormac McCarthy's, but this novel possessed a few visceral and nasty surprises that put it in the same territory of viciousness and macabre grandeur as Blood Meridian." - Laird Barron Book details: published 2005. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.