The black hand : the bloody rise and redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican mob killer / Chris Blatchford.

Author: Blatchford, Chris.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Morrow, c2008.

ISBN: 9780061257292
006125729X

Description: xx, 332 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s): Enriquez, Rene, 1962-
Mexican Mafia (Gang) Biography.
Criminals California Biography.
Gangsters California Biography.
Mexican American criminals California Biography.

Contents: Blood in blood out -- Mexican Mafia history -- Boxer beginnings -- Drugs, dealing, robbing, and rebellion -- Boxer graduates to college (prison) -- The wrecking crew -- Boxer and the black hand -- Mafia politics : like swimming with sharks in a bloody pool -- Back outside : the brutality of the streets -- Preserving hoodlum honor -- Boxer meets steely-eyed Chuco -- Hit the streets like a wildman -- Shifting loyalties and sweet revenge -- A reign of terror -- Learning a sweet lucrative scam -- Hungry pirhanas in a tank -- Die like a man, you punk -- Mafia gratitude goes only so far -- Beverly Hills meets La Eme -- A plot to shoot a rival inside county jail -- La Eme goes to Hollywood -- Drive-bys, drugs & the Pepsi generation Mafia -- Dealing with pure evil -- Eme plot to kill the governor of California -- Operation Pelican Drop -- Calling the shots from prison -- Baby killers -- Dead men don't pay -- Chuco rolls on La Eme -- A rat or just smart? -- A mini-mob convention -- Boxer, Bat and the Tijuana drug cartel -- It was just business -- Race riot madness -- Phony peace talks -- Growing mob weary -- Man is made or unmade by himself -- Missing life -- Dropping out of the mob -- A wonderful break -- You can't play by the rules -- La Eme spreading like a cancer -- Trying to be more.