Ryan Gattis. Harper, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-237879-8
Set in South Central Los Angeles in 1992, during the six days of rioting sparked by the Rodney King verdict, this violent, visceral novel from Gattis (Kung Fu High School) chronicles the intersecting lives of a diverse cast of characters caught up...
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Ryan Gattis. MCD, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-25337-0
One man’s decision to steal confiscated drug money propels this engrossing crime novel set in L.A. from Gattis (All Involved). When recovering drug addict Ricky “Ghost” Mendoza, a safecracker working with the DEA, gets called in for a job one Sunday,
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Ryan Gattis. MCD, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-0-374-13031-2
On the night of Dec. 6, 1993, heroin addict Augie Clark, a key player in this ambitious crime novel set in L.A. from Gattis (Safe), witnesses his dealer, Scrappy
, getting shot outside her mother’s house, and recognizes the shooter as gangbanger...
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Ryan Gattis, Author, Brandon Gattis, Illustrator . Harcourt $13 (278p) ISBN 978-0-15-603036-6
The student body of the titular high school is armed, girded with armor and versed in martial arts in this ultraviolent, dystopian debut novel from Gattis, the spawn of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Cormier. With a corrupt, ineffectual administration,
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