Do or Die

<p><em>Do or Die</em> is the first insider account of teenage gangs--the lives loves and battles of children who kill--from the only journalist ever allowed inside this closed and dangerous world. </p><p>This is no <em>West Side Story.</em> Welcome to a world where teenagers wear colostomy bags and have scrapbooks filled with funeral invitations; where a young man after being shot in the chest drives himself to the hospital; where another youngster caught in crossfire uses his girlfriend as a human shield; where teenage gangsters are kidnapped tortured and held for six-figure ransoms; where kids hum the latest movie's theme music while killing people. It's a world of clickheads sherms bangers ballers and mummyheads; a world where the strongest feelings of family come from other gang members; a world where the most potent feelings of self-worth come from murder. </p>