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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killerby: Chris Blatchford  List Price: $25.95 Amazon.com's Price: $17.13 You Save: $8.82 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 364.1092 EAN: 9780061257292 ISBN: 006125729X Label: William Morrow Manufacturer: William Morrow Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: October 01, 2008 Publisher: William Morrow Release Date: September 23, 2008 Studio: William Morrow Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: An astonishing and groundbreaking look at the Mexican Mafia, The Black Hand is an unprecedented story of depravity, violence, and redemption Rene "Boxer" Enriquez grew up on the violent streets of East L.A., where gang fights, robberies, and drive-by shootings were fueled by rage, drugs, and alcohol. When he finally landed in prison—at the age of nineteen—Enriquez found an organization that brought him the respect he always wanted: the near-mythic and widely feared Mexican Mafia, La Eme. What it saw in Enriquez was a young man who knew no fear and would kill anyone—justifiably or not—in the blink of an eye. That loyalty and iron will drove him up the ranks as a mob enforcer and ultimately to the upper echelons, where he would help rule for nearly two decades. He helped La Eme become the powerful and violent organization that it is now, with a base army of approximately sixty thousand heavily armed gang members who control the prison system and a large part of California crime. Arguably the most dangerous gang in American history, its reach is growing. And now award-winning investigative journalist Chris Blatchford, with the unprecedented cooperation of Rene Enriquez, reveals the inner workings, secret meetings, and elaborate murder plots that make up the daily routine of the Mafia brothers. It is an intense, never-before-told story of a man who devoted his life to a bloody cause only to find betrayal and disillusionment. After years of research and investigation, Blatchford has delivered a historic narrative of a nefarious organization that will go down as a classic in mob literature. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - RICK "SHAQ" GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "HE WAS A FEARED KILLER-EVEN IN A WORLD OF KILLERS-HE WAS A KILLER'S KILLER & PROUD OF IT"This book is a fascinating, but brutally intense character study of Rene "Boxer" Enriquez along with a history lesson of The Mexican Mafia. The Mexican Mafia known as La Eme (pronounced EH-meh) "is the Spanish phonetic pronunciation of the letter "M" - for Mafia." Boxer's story is told from his childhood in a nice home in Southern California with a hard working Father... to a teenage life of petty crime and drugs... to becoming a serious heroin addict by the time he was sixteen... to armed robberies... ... Read More Rating: - La Eme is deep!!This is one of the best books about criminal gangs that I have ever read!!I remember reading about some of the incidents described in this book in newspapers and videotapes. This book was filled with a lot of detailed information about the structure and various problems that come with being in many criminal organizations, the betrayals,the drug abuse, hurting or killing your own members,etc. If you enjoy reading this book, I would also recommend The Hot House, Inside-Life Behind Bars in America and 8 Ball ... Read More Rating: - boxeri've read quite a bit on the mexican mafia and when i started this book i couldn't put it down. to see boxer who came from a good family and rise to power in la eme was amazing. the things he did were horible yet to see him finally rise above that and say ENOUGH was what you the reader were hoping for. this is the best book out there on the mexican mafia and its inner workings. you come to know men like "topo peters", "huero shy", "tupi" and black dan. great great book. my hats off to rene enriquez! Rating: - The Black Hand & Rene "Boxer" EnriquezExcellent book on the Mexican Mafia's inner workings as related by Rene "Boxer" Enriquez. Chris Blatchford does his homework and tells it like it is and like it was. The Black Hand is a perfect part of The Trilogy of Mexican Mafia (or, EME) books that I consider required reading. 1)Mexican Mafia: From Altar Boy to Hitman by Ramon Mendoza - Written by Ramon "Mundo" Mendoza and takes us to the EME's beginnings and through the deadly evolution of this prison-spawned gang which spilled it's violence ... Read More Rating:  - Who wrote this? Certainly not Boxer...For more than a decade the name Boxer carried weight from the streets of Southern California through the cell blocks of the nations largest and most sophisticated prison system. Having viewed the build up to the release of Black Hand, I fully expected this book to be an action packed first person retelling of the life, times and crimes of one Rene "Boxer" Enriquez. What I found instead was an author referring to CDC, district attorney, police, FBI files and media accounts for much of the information contained within. ... Read More 
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