Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of Boxer Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer
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An astonishing and groundbreaking look at the Mexican Mafia, The Black Hand is an unprecedented story of depravity, violence, and redemptionRene "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. Publishers Weekly There is much to praise in this authorized biography of Rene "Boxer" Enriquez, penned by Peabody Award-winning journalist Blatchford (Three Dog Nightmare). While this is a superb cautionary tale about the dangers of youth falling into senseless gang violence, it also rates as a probing, redemptive story of Enriquez, a vicious, heroin-addicted killer for Los Angeles's largest criminal street gang, with 20,000 members involved in extortion, drug-dealing, vice and murder. Blatchford explores with grim accuracy Enriquez's criminal past, prison killings, turf wars and contract eliminations around the West Coast. But the book also reveals Enriquez and his crew's total commitment to hoodlum honor, the cost in lives and status, and the betrayals and intrigues both behind bars and out in society. This is a savvy account of Enriquez's arduous self-education and personal transformation from cold killer to a man who, in his own words, educates law enforcement and the public about a "prison and criminal subculture that should scare the hell out of them." (Sept.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
1 Blood In, Blood Out 12 Mexican Mafia History 43 Boxer Beginnings 124 Drugs, Dealing, Robbing, and Rebellion 185 Boxer Graduates to College (Prison) 296 The Wrecking Crew 367 Boxer and the Black Hand 398 Mafia Politics: Like Swimming with Sharks in a Bloody Pool 459 Back Outside: The Brutality of the Streets 5310 Preserving Hoodlum Honor 5911 Boxer Meets Steely-Eyed Chuco 6512 Hit the Streets Like a Wild Man 7013 Shifting Loyalties and Sweet Revenge 7514 A Reign of Terror 8215 Learning a Sweet Lucrative Scam 9516 Hungry Piranhas in a Tank 10017 Die Like a Man, You Punk 10518 Mafia Gratitude Goes Only So Far 11219 La Eme Goes to Hollywood 11420 Drive-bys, Drugs, and the Pepsi Generation Mafia 12121 Dealing with Pure Evil 12722 The Eme Plot to Kill the Governor of California 13523 Operation Pelican Drop 14024 Calling the Shots From Prison 14925 Baby Killers 16126 Dead Men Don't Pay 18027 Chuco Rolls on La Eme 18528 A Rat or Just Smart? 19529 A Mini-Mob Convention 20130 Boxer, Bat, and the Tijuana Drug Cartel 20731 It Was Just Business 21732 Race Riot Madness 22533 Phony Peace Talks 23034 Growing Mob-Weary 24035 Man Is Made or Unmade by Himself 24636 Missing Life 24937 Dropping Out of the Mob 25638 A WonderFul Break 26739 You Can't Play by the Rules 27440 La Eme Spreading Like a Cancer 28341 Trying to Be More 289Afterword 295Glossary 305Bibliography 309Acknowledgments 315Index 317
