All involved
By: Ryan Gattis
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780062378798
Subjects: Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992; Race relations; Fiction
Description: "At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted two Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue civilian Rodney King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a third officer. Less than two hours later, the city of LA, a powder keg of racial tension, exploded in violence as people took to the streets in a terrifying orgy of rioting that lasted six days. In 144 hours, sixty lives were lost. And then there were the murders outside of active rioting sites, committed by gangbangers who used the lawlessness of a city on fire to viciously settle scores. A gritty and cinematic work of sourced fiction, All Involved vividly recreates this turbulent and terrifying time through the stories of six interconnected lives caught up in extraordinary circumstances"--