Man Up: A Novel

Hi-top fade security protectionist hero Buckett Collins summons all his courage (“man up,” in African-American urban parlance) and battles to protect his beloved daughter, Becky, from the clutches of Bane, the sinister, hell-bent leader of the Rocky Ensergent terrorist gang. Becky witnessed Bane murder Buckett’s friend during a gang assault upon a group of black community activists. Enraged and filled with revenge, the homicidal Bane is determined to rape, kill, and stop Becky from reporting his deadly crime to the police. Amid a savage blood feud between Bane’s mob and their hated, equally bloodthirsty rivals, the Satan’s Guerilla gang, Buckett and Becky struggle to gain justice within the ghetto terrorism of 1990s South-Central Los Angeles.