Street Kingdom: Five Years Inside the Franklin Avenue Posse

Five years ago, author Douglas Century, a white, affluent Princeton graduate, met a streetwise rapper with six criminal aliases. When the rapper admits to being a leader of an 80-member Brooklyn crack gang, the father of five or six illegitimate children, and the owner of an arrest record a mile long, Century doesn't run away; he gets in deep. Century is invited to enter a "street kingdom", where values are turned upside down, and he spends the next four years with 30 men who constitute a warrior class of the street. Raised on violence and taught to impose their will on others, they are nevertheless desperate for a way out. Unsentimental, yet completely involving, "Street Kingdom" paints an unforgettable portrait of life on the street and the vibrant characters who represent both its most vicious criminals and most heartbreaking victims.

• Author
• Douglas Century

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 415

• Publisher
• Warner Books (NY)

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780446522663

• Genres
• crime

• Release date
• 1999