A man named Hawk Condo paid a price in Yuma prison in his young days for something he didn’t do. Seven years later, the real perpetrators of the crime were found and he was set free. Hawk would... More > never again be an innocent young man again. He came out of the prison a man without tolerance or mercy!
Still mindset to be on the right track, he went to Brooklyn to start anew! One man would not let him and Hawk found himself in the middle of a deadly web of killing, rape of the worst kind, and this time it was the unbeatable Mafia! Hawk was in a fight he knew he could not win! It became a fight of living or dying and he was not ready to die! Taking beatings in the courtyard in prison, he worked hard every day, digging ditches in the hard alkali desert going nowhere. His body grew strong and he learned to fight. With two women on his side who were also hunted and marked for death, they became the hunters! They became the professionals and learned the skill of always staying one step ahead of the deadly Mafia!< Less
TRUE CRIME: Never before told, this is the long-awaited truth about the 1984 mass murder of 11 women and children in their own home in Brooklyn, New York. The macabre crime scene was compared to... More > the "wax museum of horrors."
Told from the perspective of Carmine Rossi, the neighborhood baker who rescued the lone survivor, an 11-month-old baby girl, this gripping story will keep you turning pages to the end. Rossi's long-time association with the mob made him the central focus of the media, a prominent figure in the investigation and key witness at the trial.
You will wonder if justice has been served for the grieving families. You will wonder if other shooters were involved, but not indicted. You will wonder why the story has never been told before. Then you will wonder if this could ever happen again.
The horrific murders of this innocent Puerto Rican family has moved into the annals of crime as the "Palm Sunday Massacre."< Less
TRUE CRIME: Never before told, this is the long-awaited truth about the 1984 mass murder of 11 women and children in their own home in Brooklyn, New York. The macabre crime scene was compared to... More > the "wax museum of horrors."
Told from the perspective of Carmine Rossi, the neighborhood baker who rescued the lone survivor, an 11-month-old baby girl, this gripping story will keep you turning pages to the end. Rossi's long-time association with the mob made him the central focus of the media, a prominent figure in the investigation and key witness at the trial.
You will wonder if justice has been served for the grieving families. You will wonder if other shooters were involved, but not indicted. You will wonder why the story has never been told before. Then you will wonder if this could ever happen again.
The horrific murders of this innocent Puerto Rican family has moved into the annals of crime as the "Palm Sunday Massacre."< Less
The poems contained in this collection are a remarkable example of the power of words. The students in the Poetry Club at the Grand Street Campus High Schools worked with Kesed Ragin, Janine Simone... More > and Maria Krajewski to learn to express themselves through poetry. The Poetry Club is grateful for the experience as well as this book, which was made possible by a Mini Grant from the United Federation of Teachers.< Less
The poems contained in this collection are a remarkable example of the power of words. The students in the Poetry Club at the Grand Street Campus High Schools worked with Kesed Ragin, Janine Simone... More > and Maria Krajewski to learn to express themselves through poetry. The Poetry Club is grateful for the experience as well as this book, which was made possible by a Mini Grant from the United Federation of Teachers.< Less