Earth Angels - Hardcover

Petievich, Gerald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0453006809 ISBN 13: 9780453006804

Publisher: Dutton, 1989

Synopsis

A Los Angeles drug squad crosses the line separating justice from crime in an attempt to break the backs of the city's notorious Chicano gangs

About this title

About the Author:

Gerald Petievich is a former U.S. Secret Service Agent. Mr. Petievich numbers among his novels "To Live and Die in L.A.", "To Die in Beverly Hills", and "Shakedown".

From Publishers Weekly:

The author of the brutally violent To Live and Die in L.A. turns the trick again in this grisly novel that begins with the accidental murder of a little girl. L.A. detective sergeant Jose Stepanovich heads a newly formed four-member anti-gang unit striving to neutralize gang activity that has been polluting the barrio of East L.A. for generations. An innocent bystander, the girl is killed by an errant bullet fired during gang drive-by. Unfortunately, since evidence is hard to come by, and witnesses harder still, the unit fails to solve the crime. When one member of the elite unit is murdered during another drive-by, Stepanovich and his remaining cohorts take on both gangs. Many gory deaths later, Stepanovich has been transformed into the beast he once hunted. Petievich's graphic descriptions of the violence and of a gang psychology that leans heavily on retribution and machisimo are the only saving elements in an eminently predictable storyline littered with one-dimensional characters. The reader is hard pressed to feel any emotion for the players in this saga of violence, in which texture is substituted for depth. Major ad/promo; author tour.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0453006809
• ISBN 13: 9780453006804
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248