Street Raised
2006
First Published
3.83
Average Rating
216
Number of Pages
Oakland, 1984.Skinheads prowl the streets, a serial killer talksto God through the business end of a butcher knife, and Mexican doperunners dump their chained enemies into the river alive. Navigating ablasted landscape of feral dogs, crooked cops, and violent criminals isSpeedy, an ex-con come home to a litany of the cops want hisass back in prison, his friends are being murdered by the local druglords, and now romance has reared it's lovely head as distraction. Speedy has raised, and he will take whatever he damn wellpleases. For better or worse, he is what he a savage mother.
Avg Rating
3.83
Number of Ratings
76
5 STARS
32%
4 STARS
32%
3 STARS
28%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
3%
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Author
Pearce Hansen
Author · 4 books
Pearce Hansen is the author of Street Raised//https://www.amazon.com/Street-Raised-.... Pearce Hansen is an Oakland native residing in Seattle with his wife Pia. Pearce's fiction is inspired by events and experiences from his youth growing up in the East Bay. He's been writing 20 years with over 100 publications including three novels, one short story collection and six anthology inclusions. He's an alumnus of Anthony Neil Smith's legendary Plots With Guns! and Todd Robinson's Thuglit. He's been reviewed by Eddie Muller in the SF Chronicle, and blurbed by Joe Lansdale, Michael Shea, Ken Bruen and Laird Barron. His work's been translated into Finnish and Spanish, and adapted as a limited edition comic book.
