Contents

Preface

PART I. A Violent History

  1.The End: The Death and Burial of Miguel Ángel Tobar

  2.The Beginning: A Child Tries to Kill a Man in the Coffee Plantation

  3.The Origin: The Civil War and the Refugees in California

  4.Welcome to the South: The Sureño Gang Rockers

  5.Assassin’s Gaze: Getting to Know an MS-13 Traitor

  6.Tiny Wars

PART II. Shacks

  7.Chepe Furia’s Boys

  8.To Kill a Witch

  9.Mission Hollywood 1: A Cleanup in the Clique

10.Threats from Prison

11.Mission Hollywood 2: Killing Eighteens

12.The Hollywood Soldier

13.Chepe Furia’s Fall

14.Here Lies the Hollywood Kid

15.Blood in the Turín Well

16.A Murdered Prostitute, a Burned-Out Car

17.The Murder of Wendy

18.Little Piñata

19.“There Aren’t Any Other Options”

PART III. Abyss

20.Traitor

21.Outlaw

22.Truce

23.Hell

24.Death

PART IV. Alive

25.In Search of the Kid