Bibliograph

T.h.u.g. l.i.f.e., a novel

Type

Label

T.h.u.g. l.i.f.e., a novel

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

T.h.u.g. l.i.f.e.

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

a novel

Summary

T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E. is a vicious, heart-wrenching and true-to-life novel about an LA gang member that masterfully captures the violence and depravity of gang life. Shakur's protagonist is Lapeace, the leader of the Eight Tray Crips gang in South Central Los Angeles. In a deadly gunfight with Anyhow, a Blood and Lapeace's rival since childhood, eight innocent civilians are killed. Anyhow is captured. Lapeace becomes a fugitive and he must hide out in the home of his girlfriend, Tashima, a hip-hop mogul as a pair of crooked LA detectives, John Sweeney and Jesse Mendoza, attempt to track him down. This novel was written from the confines of Shakur's jail cell, and the authenticity of its street scenes-the relentlessness of violence, the do-or-die attitude of each side of the gang war, the sheer joy in the killing-is a testament to the hell that has been a majority of Shakur's life. With T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E., Shakur delivers a powerful and gripping story about the terror of gang life and one man's attempt to free himself

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Thug life

Classification