Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader

Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader

In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investiga…

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