Description

This startling and gritty novel about crime and race in New York City. Steven Baum is a probation officer in Manhattan. Every day he deals with crackheads, muggers, sex abusers--and tries to find something to salvage. But then he runs into Darryl King, a killer and crackhead with one ambition: to head his own crack organization. But King faces on major obstacle: his probation officer, Steven Baum.