The System

An electrifying, multi-voiced novel that follows one crime through the system-and "powerfully illuminates every corner of the law-and-order universe" (Los Angeles Times).

On December 6, 1993, a drug dealer called Scrappy is shot and left for dead on the lawn outside her mother's house in South Central Los Angeles. Augie, a heroin addict, witnesses the whole thing-before he steals all the drugs on her person, as well as the gun that was dropped at the scene. When Augie gets busted, he names ...