Ryan Gattis

• Dec-2020
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An electrifying, multi-voiced novel that follows one crime through the system -- and "powerfully illuminates every corner of the law-and-order universe" (Los Angeles Times). On December 6, 1993, a drug dealer called Scrappy is shot and left for de...

• Sep-2017
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• Aug-2017
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Ryan Gattis' gritty, fast-paced thriller, Safe, hurtles readers toward a shocking conclusion that asks the toughest question of all: how far would you go to protect the ones you love? Ricky 'Ghost' Mendoza, Jr. is trying to be good. In recover...

• Dec-2016
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After 17-year-old Grey witnesses the tragic death of his mother in Colorado, he is shipped off to live with his aunt in inner-city Baltimore, where he struggles to fit in to a new school and community. His new friend Akil introduces him to the eni...

• May-2016
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Without a piped-in supply, the Los Angeles water table only supported 1.4% of the population. When California's suppliers turned the tap off, L.A. withered. Sprinklers shut off. Faucets too. But the county wasn't the only casualty. The problem was...

• Apr-2015
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A propulsive and ambitious novel as electrifying as The Wire, from a writer hailed as the West Coast's Richard Price -- a mesmerizing epic of crime and opportunity, race, revenge, and loyalty, set in the chaotic streets of South Central L.A. in the w...

• Mar-2015
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At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a fourth offic...

• Mar-2015
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At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a fourth offic...

• Mar-2015
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At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a fourth offic...

• Mar-2015
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At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a fourth offic...

• Mar-2015
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At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a fourth offic...

• Mar-2015
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At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a fourth offic...

• Apr-2013
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After finally locating Emi Sato, Johnny Ban loses her just as quickly as he found her. Their too-brief reunion sends him careening after her once more -- this time setting him up for a chain of surprises that will forever change how he sees himself a...

• Jan-2013
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After killing a yakuza in self-defense, an ex-military translator owes a debt that is payable only one way: take the dead man's place searching for a missing woman in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.. . .After killing a yakuza in self-defense, an ex-milita...

• Jan-2013
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After killing a yakuza in self-defense, an ex-military translator owes a debt that is payable only one way: take the dead man's place searching for a missing woman in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Fusing gritty yakuza action with elements of classic noi...

• Sep-2005
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"[An] ultraviolent, dystopian debut novel from Ryan Gattis, the spawn of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Cormier." -- Publishers Weekly High school is brutal, but Jen B. has learned to pick her battles. Except the first one -- that one is mandatory...

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