LAND OF NO PITY (BOOK 1)
Elijah “Li’l Nine” Hassahn born into the gritty environs of South Central L.A. in the late 1970s, is ripe to be molded by the first generation of the Crip movement. As a product of the first family of the Rollin 90s Neighborhood Crips, Elijah is forced to adapt to circumstances beyond his control. From an innocent boy he grows through trials of love, betrayal, and death into a man of iron will and resilience. Shaped by poverty and pain, Elijah takes lessons of survival from his street-savvy uncles, Big 9-Lives and Cannon, and navigates the school of hard knocks to the upper echelon of the Los Angeles underworld, where murder is currency and trauma a constant companion.
Through this trek from gutter to power, Elijah’s childhood friends, the Teflon-Black Brothers and Ju-Ju, are with him every step of the way. Poverty-stricken, emotionally and physically abused, their only reality is to sink or swim among the snakes and wolves. In an all-or-nothing effort to survive long enough to reach the top, they soon learn there is a thin line between friend and foe in an ever shifting game of alliances.
Elise Cortez, beautiful, fearless, and deadly, is making her own mark in the LA underworld. In her ongoing mission to take back everything she feels was taken from her and quench her burning rage, her world collides with Elijah’s to form an unholy alliance created by fate and vengeance.
Land Of No Pity follows a loose-knit group of young Crips on their evolutionary journey as they transform from local street gangsters into nationwide criminal enterprises of violence, wealth, and power. The City of Lost Angels wraps all in its wicked embrace. Will Elijah succumb to his fate in the streets, or will his choices crush the innocence he once knew and threaten his humanity?
LAND OF NO PITY - THE LOST GENERATION (BOOK 2)
It’s 2003 and the streets of South Central Los Angeles are at war. Elijah “Lil 9-Lives” Hassahn has put his gangster life behind
him and is thriving with his family in his newfound wealth; but the past keeps coming back to haunt him. After four years in hiding, Lil Teflon is back with a bloodlust for revenge. Enemies hide in plain sight and an uprising begins. The Tiny Toons, the next generation of gangsters, play hard and fast with the rules, aiming to take the reins of the Nine-Os for themselves.
A new threat arises when a major player in the Set is murdered. The finger of blame points in Elijah’s direction, and now he must either swallow his pride and keep the peace or revert to the violent man he used to be. Big 9-Lives and Big Teflon are pulled into the fray to calm the tensions, but lines are blurred between friend and foe. Meanwhile, Elise struggles to find balance in her new life with Elijah, the illicit drug trade, and her tortured past.
As loyalties to brothers and friends are tested, Elijah is spinning out of control toward the point of no return. Can he make peace with a childhood friend who wronged him, or will he immerse himself back into the bloodshed of the urban trenches? In this provocative sequel in the Land Of No Pity series, it’s do or die and only the strong will survive.