BORN FI' DEAD A Journey Through the Jamaican Posse Underworld

Paperback. UK Reprint. Among the gangs that ruled America's inner cities during the 1980s and 1990s, none had the impact of the Jamaican posses. Spawned in the ghettos of Kingston as mercenary street-fighters for the island's politicians, the posses began migrating to the United States in the early 1980s, just in time to catch and ride the crack wave as it engulfed the country. Feared and honoured for being 'harder than the rest', these Jamaican cocaine syndicates laid claim to their new American territories with outlaw bravura and a ruthlessness that became immortalised in song. The author's provocative expose of the Jamaican politicians' role in creating this problem is also a moving and compelling tale of suffering and exploitation. This edition includes a new Afterword by the author. 261pp. p/back. Vg+