num_pages: 247
description: Thousands of pages of transcripts of taped conversation were edited to form this biography of a street hustler, stickup artist, dope fiend and a former gang fighter, burglar, pimp, pusher, and armed robber, paralyzed after being shot in the spine in a gunfight, tells of his twenty-eight years on the streets and in and out of the jails of Washington, D.CThe prose is inelegant but authentic; judicious editing makes this fast-paced narrative instructive without being ponderous.
language: English
title: Assault With a Deadly Weapon: The Autobiography of a Street Criminal
titlecomplete: Assault With a Deadly Weapon: The Autobiography of a Street Criminal
ratings_count: 5
publisher: McGraw-Hill