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082 00 364.106/6097526|223/eng/20221202 
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100 1  Bowden, Mark,|d1951-|eauthor. 
245 10 Life sentence :|bthe brief and tragic career of 
       Baltimore's deadliest gang leader /|cby Mark Bowden. 
246 30 Brief and tragic career of Baltimore's deadliest gang 
       leader 
250    First edition. 
250    First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bAtlantic Monthly Press,|c2023. 
264  4 |c©2023 
300    xiii, 302 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) 
505 00 |tThe game (or, the greased path) --|tShabangbang shaboing
       --|tThe Fulton Avenue wall --|tEither you got to be that, 
       or you ain't --|tShit be catching up with them --|tHere 
       come landsman --|tThe ballad of Ronnie Jackass --|tWe 
       hunting --|tnumber one trigger puller --|tGotta take it on
       the chin --|tDrinking from a fire hose --|tWhat are we 
       supposed to do now, clap? --|tCrabs in a bucket. 
520    "In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life,
       Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers 
       an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and 
       chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight of
       its members in prison. Sandtown is one of the deadliest 
       neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its 
       nickname "Bodymore, Murderland," and was made notorious by
       David Simon's classic HBO series The Wire. Drug deals 
       dominate street corners, and ruthless, casual violence 
       abounds. Montana Barronette grew up in the center of it 
       all. He was the leader of the gang "Trained to Go," or TTG,
       and when he was finally arrested and sentenced to life in 
       prison, he had been labeled "Baltimore's Number One 
       Trigger Puller." Under Tana's reign, TTG dominated 
       Sandtown. After a string of murders are linked to TTG, 
       each with dozens of witnesses too intimidated to testify, 
       three detectives set out to put Tana in prison for life. 
       For them, this was never about drugs: it was about serial 
       murder. An acclaimed journalist who spent his youth in the
       white suburbs of Baltimore, Mark Bowden returns to the 
       city with exclusive access to key FBI files and 
       unprecedented insight into one of the city's deadliest 
       gangs and its notorious leader. As he traces the rise and 
       fall of TTG, Bowden uses wiretapped drug buys, police 
       interviews, undercover videos, text messages, social media
       posts, trial transcripts, and his own ongoing 
       conversations with Tana's family and community to create 
       the most in-depth account of an inner-city gang ever 
       written. With his signature precision and propulsive 
       narrative, Mark Bowden positions Tana--as a boy, a gang 
       leader, a killer, and now a prisoner--in the context of 
       Baltimore and America, illuminating his path for what it 
       really was: a life sentence." --|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Barronette, Montana,|d1995- 
650  0 Gangs|zMaryland|zBaltimore. 
650  0 Crime|zMaryland|zBaltimore. 
650  0 Gang members|zMaryland|zBaltimore|vBiography. 
651  0 Baltimore (Md.)|xSocial conditions. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
655  7 Case studies.|2lcgft 
655  7 True crime stories.|2lcgft