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**"A remarkable feat of reporting." --Rachel Louise Snyder, author of ****No Visible Bruises*****WINNER OF THE LUKAS PRIZE*The definitive account of the most notorious street gang in America--the MS-13--as seen through the lives of gang members and their families caught in its malicious web**The MS-13 was born from war. In the 1980s, El Salvador was enmeshed in a bloody civil conflict. To escape the guerrilla assaults and death squads, many fled to the US and settled in Los Angeles. Among them were Alex and his brother.There, as a survival instinct, Alex and a small number of Salvadoran immigrants formed a group called the Mara Salvatrucha Stoners, a relatively harmless social network bound by heavy metal music and their Salvadoran identity. But later, as they brushed against established local gangs, the group took on a harder edge, selling drugs, stealing cars and killing rivals who threatened their territories....
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- Author
- Steven Dudley
- Publisher
- Hanover Square Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781488095344
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Science, True Crime
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (187 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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