The Triangle: A Year on the Ground with New York's Bloods and Crips

The Linden Triangle: Linden Avenue and Linden Place, Hempstead, Long Island. At this blighted intersection, seemingly forgotten by the middle and upper class communities that surround it, the dream of suburban comfort and safety has devolved into a nightmare of flying bullets and bloodshed. Here, a war between the Bloods and Crips has torn a once-peaceful neighborhood apart.

The book tells the true story of one year in the life of a suburban village-turned-war-zone. Written by Kevin Deutsch,...