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    Blood Posse (1994) by Phillip Baker

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    Yardie stylee! Similar vein to Victor Headley - nice!

    'This book follows the life of Danny, a young Jamaican growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s. At the age of 18, in the middle of a sectarian war, he gets his hand on a gun and his life completely changes he becomes a vigilante, leads a gang, and starts making money by dealing in drugs'



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