Jungle Street / Running With the Barons - Paperback

by Robert Silverberg (Author)

JUNGLE STREET

Danny Flaherty's family moves to a new neighborhood, so he's out of the Shining Sinners, and looking to get in with the Golden Dragons. Getting into a new gang means an initiation, and Danny's ready for whatever they've got in mind. Mike Reilly, the Prez of the Dragons, first asks Danny to infiltrate a neighboring gang. Easy. Then he's asked to participate in a robbery. Not so easy. He has to hit the owner on the head with a bottle, and now the guy's in a coma. Could be worse. But the final initiation is the tricky one-Danny's got to make it with three Dragon debs in front of the whole gang. And that's how he meets Lisa, Reilly's girl. It's all been kicks up till now. But Danny has big plans, and nobody is going to stop him from taking what he wants.

RUNNING WITH THE BARONS

Marty Capuano might be short but he was a big man in his Lower East Side gang. Now his family is living in Jenkinsville, Ohio, and he feels like he's been banished to Nowheresville. So he goes looking for a new gang and finds the Dragons. Marty is the best there is with a blade, and he makes pretty short work of the Dragon's pres. Now he's sitting on top again, with the former pres's deb, Jojo, and the fear and respect of the whole gang. But this is only the beginning. There's a snooty chick named Jill who snubbed him when he first hit town, and she's got to be brought down a notch ... and there's the bartender who wouldn't serve him a beer ... Marty still has a lot of folks to get even with, and he's only just started.