Street Casualties

Book excerpt: Angel Andrade is a teenager raised by a single mother, whose childhood was spent in homeless shelters. In high school, desperate to fit in, desperate to have money, women, and respect, becomes a drug dealer thinking only about making easy money. In such world his innocence is lost. Full of greed and lust for riches, he gets himself deeper and deeper in the drug underworld and the lifestyle attached to it. He rises to power through violent murder and bribes to law enforcement officials in the Mexican border towns. When he is very engulfed in this lifestyle, he discovers love, and is that love that brings back his innocence. It is also at that time that his past catches up to him