Ivan Sanchez was born in the Bronx, New York City, in 1972 and is of Puerto Rican heritage. He left the inner city in 1993 and currently lives in Virginia Beach, Virgnia, where he works as a computer professional and volunteers in the state police department's anti-gang program. Still haunted by the grotesque images and voices of the dead, this memoir is his effort to honor their memories while painting the darkest days of street life in hopes of derailing young and would-be gang bangers from their fast track to the end of the line."