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The definitive, award-winning account of MS-13, the most notorious street gang in America
The MS-13 was born from war.
In the 1980s, Alex and his brother fled El Salvador for the U.S. and formed the Mara Salvatrucha Stoners. Initially bound by a love of heavy metal music, the group soon took on a harder edge, selling drugs, stealing cars and killing rivals. Gang members like Alex were incarcerated and deported. But in the prison system, the group only grew stronger.
Today, MS-13 is one of the most infamous street gangs on earth--and also largely misunderstood. Longtime organized crime investigator Steven Dudley brings readers inside the nefarious group to tell a broader story of flawed US and Central American policies and the exploitative, unequal systems that shape them.
*WINNER OF THE LUKAS PRIZE*
*An NPR Best Book of the Year*
"A remarkable feat of reporting."--Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruise
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- ISBN-13: 9781335005540
- ISBN-10: 1335005544
- Publisher: Hanover Square Press
- Publish Date: September 2020
- Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
- Page Count: 352
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