In These Streets

They beat the odds and turned their lives around. But now three best friends will go head-to-head with ambition, deception—and each other . . .

Derrick. Ricky. Jamal. One’s responsible; one’s still a player; one’s upwardly-mobile. Sentenced to the Branch Avenue Boys’ Youth Institute at twelve, they grabbed the chance for better futures. They stayed tight even when their lives diverged—but the times . . . they are a-changing.

New deputy mayor Jamal is anti–corruption, which means severing...