45 from his waistband, and chambered a round in one fluid motion. That fool tried to dump on me in front of Ken’s store the other week. Yeah, I see it, why what’s up? Baby Menace asked. Oh shit homie, you see the white El Dorado parked across the street? The taller of the two, a hood named Set Trip asked his smaller cohort. Two figures lurked in the shadows of a dark street corner. It was well past 3 am in the drug and street gang infested Brookfield neighborhood of East Oakland, California. In memory of Sky, Tiana, Brian, Sheba and Seattle. Special acknowledgements to my cousin Lenny, and my friends Igwe and Kemi Waters for their outstanding artistic help and support. To my family Kalle, Tascia, Bofta, Tadu, Eden, Hiruy, Salem and Tita. To my brother Deon, my friends Jornal, Eli, Jason, Raymundo, Glen, Larry, Thrett, Dennis, Moe and Reggie. This book is dedicated to my mother, for being the complete opposite of Smoker Tracey in every possible way, and always being there for me, unconditionally. Follow Tacoma on his desperate quest to find his sister, while spiraling deep into the world of an escalating vampire war…
Tacoma and Raider turn their friends into vampires to help them fight against powerful enemies, and together they leave a trail of dead bodies along the entire West Coast. As the two unleash their newly acquired powers, things get quickly out of control. Their bloody journey to save Seattle takes them deep into the corrupt underworld of the Oakland police force, secret FBI task forces, a beautiful scientist, and death. With the help of an ancient Santeria book he stole from his grandmother, he turns both of them into vampires. But they are only teenage boys, and no match to fight Seattle's powerful abductors.
Tacoma's world shatters around him, and he vows to wreak violent revenge on those responsible for her disappearance. But Raider forgets, and Seattle never makes it home. Tragedy strikes one fateful day when Tacoma asks Raider to pick Seattle up from school. Lucky for them, Tacoma's best friend Raider's grandmother, Mama Marcella, shields them from getting detected by Social Services. Every day is a struggle they're forced to steal food, and have to rely on their street wits to survive.
Death to mumble rap crack#
With a crack addict as a mother, and no father, he has been responsible to take care of his little sister Seattle since he was nine, while living in one of East Oakland's most notorious drug and gang infested neighborhoods. Life has never been a walk in the park for Tacoma.
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