The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer

The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer
by Chris Blatchford

The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer
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Author: Chris Blatchford
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-01
ISBN: 006125729X
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: William Morrow
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Book Review: A Powerful Book about the Mexican Mafia!
Summary: 4 Stars

If you want to discourage the mafia lifestyle and culture in California, this book should be recommended reading for those impressionable young males. The story is about a Mexican mob killer who came out of a good family and went to prison only to emerge as a killer and a mob leader. Rene "Boxer" Enriquez's story would be told in explicit detail after he left the lifestyle and the gang-culture behind. The author, Chris Blatchford, does a remarkable job telling his point of view and how he ended up in the gang lifestyle and how he evolved into a killing machine for the sake of the mafia. He wasn't born into it. It was more like a prison rite of passage in California. He didn't need to join but he really didn't have much of a choice in the prison world where gangs ruled from behind bars. Slowly, he initiates into the group of the Mexican mafia, La Eme, which was not only a privilege but an exclusive gang who didn't just invite anybody into their world. Rene comes across as a likable person if he didn't know that he was a killer. He was a father, son, and husband at one time. His prison years had turned him into a killer which he wasn't before he went in to the system. There he emerged a powerful player in and outside of the California prisons where the gang cultures multiply and recruit possible members. Of course, there is no way but death. His life as a leader in the Mexican mafia would take the darkest turns. It's a powerful book and makes you think about how the prison system appears to making bad situations into worse.

Summary of The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer

An astonishing and groundbreaking look at the Mexican Mafia, The Black Hand is an unprecedented story of depravity, violence, and redemption

Rene "Boxer" Enriquez grew up on the violent streets of East L.A., where gang fights, robberies, and drive-by shootings were fueled by rage, drugs, and alcohol. When he finally landed in prison-at the age of nineteen-Enriquez found an organization that brought him the respect he always wanted: the near-mythic and widely feared Mexican Mafia, La Eme.

What it saw in Enriquez was a young man who knew no fear and would kill anyone-justifiably or not-in the blink of an eye. That loyalty and iron will drove him up the ranks as a mob enforcer and ultimately to the upper echelons, where he would help rule for nearly two decades.

He helped La Eme become the powerful and violent organization that it is now, with a base army of approximately sixty thousand heavily armed gang members who control the prison system and a large part of California crime. Arguably the most dangerous gang in American history, its reach is growing.

And now award-winning investigative journalist Chris Blatchford, with the unprecedented cooperation of Rene Enriquez, reveals the inner workings, secret meetings, and elaborate murder plots that make up the daily routine of the Mafia brothers. It is an intense, never-before-told story of a man who devoted his life to a bloody cause only to find betrayal and disillusionment.

After years of research and investigation, Blatchford has delivered a historic narrative of a nefarious organization that will go down as a classic in mob literature.

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