White Boy in Watts

by Karl Wiggins
The world of the Cab Driver is uncertain and dangerous, but no more so than when you’re a white English guy working Watts, Compton and Inglewood, home to the infamous Bloods and Crips.

In this very short book I’ve intended to paint an ominous picture of a community destroyed by drugs, guns and violence. You’ll almost smell the omnipresent whiff of cheap wine and feel the dirty lino under your feet.

Read the true-life adventures of an English lad as I struggled to make a living amongst ‘gangstas’ who are arguably the most violent in the United States.

You’ll be able to hear my characters, see them and, in some instances, actually smell them. They’ll leave their stain on you. It’ll be the thugs with guns and no soul who will unsettle you. I want you to be scared of them.

Come and have a look at the world through my eyes in the 1980’s, and, like me, marvel that I got out of there alive.

If you enjoy True Gangsta Books, or books about the Bloods or Crips, then take a chance on this one

This is a very short book, 50 pages or so, that’s all, but these are stories that need to be told. Scroll up and click on the cover of the book to ‘Look inside’

Publication date
  • December 3, 2013