The Black Hand : the bloody rise and redemption of ''boxer'' Enriquez, a Mexican mob killer /: the bloody rise and redemption of ''boxer'' Enriquez, a Mexican mob killer. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Chris Blatchford.
• Other Names: Blatchford, Chris
• Contents: 1. Blood in, blood out -- 2. Mexican Mafia history -- 3. Boxer beginnings -- 4. Drugs, dealing, robbing, and rebellion -- 5. Boxer graduates to college (prison) -- 6. The wrecking crew -- 7. Boxer and the Black Hand -- 8. Mafia politics: like swimming with sharks in a bloody pool -- 9. Back outside: the brutality of the streets -- 10. Preserving hoodlum honor -- 11. Boxer meets steely-eyed Chuco -- 12. Hit the streets like a wild man -- 13. Shifting loyalties and sweet revenge -- 14. A reign of terror -- 15. Learning a sweet lucrative scam -- 16. Hungry piranhas in a tank -- 17. Die like a man, you punk -- 18. Mafia gratitude goes only so far -- 19. La Eme goes to Hollywood -- 20. Drive-bys, drugs, and the Pepsi generation Mafia -- 21. Dealing with pure evil -- 22. The Eme plot to kill the governor of California -- 23. Operation Pelican Drop -- 24. Calling the shots from prison -- 25. Baby killers -- 26. Dead men don't pay -- 27. Chuco rolls on La Eme -- 28. A rat or just smart? -- 29. A mini-mob convention -- 30. Boxer, Bat, and the Tijuana drug cartel -- 31. It was just business -- 32. Race riot madness -- 33. Phony peace talks -- 34. Growing mob-weary -- 35. Man is made or unmade by himself -- 36. Missing life -- 37. Dropping out of the mob -- 38. A wonderful break -- 39. You can't play by the rules -- 40. La Eme spreading like a cancer -- 41. Trying to be more.
• Publisher Details: New York : HarperCollins e-books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (432 pages)
• Subjects: 364.1523092; True Crime -- Organized Crime; Mexican American criminals -- California, Southern -- Biography; Organized crime -- California, Southern; Murderers -- California -- Biography; Gangsters -- California -- Biography; Gangsters; Mexican American criminals; Murderers; Organized crime; Gangsters -- California -- Biography; Mexican Mafia (Gang); Mexican American criminals -- California, Southern -- Biography; Organized Crime -- California, Southern; Murderers -- California -- Biography; Social Science -- Criminology; California; California, Southern; Biography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780061982262; 0061982261
• Related ISBNs: 9780061257308
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