Author: Ryan Gattis
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2020-12-08
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 0374716625
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âGripping, meticulously researched, and smartly plotted, I devoured this brilliant novel over the course of a weekend.â âPaula Hawkins, author of Into the Water âFascinating, moving, and so very, very real. It grabbed me by the heart and mind from page one and never let me go.â âMarcia Clark, author of The Final Judgment An electrifying, multi-voiced thriller tackling our criminal justice system, from the writer Michael Connelly has called âone of our most gifted novelists.â On December 6, 1993, a drug dealer called Scrappy is shot and left for dead on the lawn outside her motherâs house in South Central Los Angeles. Augie, a heroin addict, witnesses the whole thingâbefore he steals all the drugs on her person, as well as the gun that was dropped at the scene. When Augie gets busted, he names local gang members Wizard and Dreamer the shooters. But only one of them is guilty. A search of Wizard and Dreamerâs premises uncovers the gun that was used in the shooting, and a warrant goes out for their arrest. They know itâs a frame-up, but the word from the gang is to keep their mouths shut and face the charges. With these two off the streets and headed for jail, Dreamerâs friend Little, the unlikeliest of new gang members, is given one job: discover how the gun got moved, and why. Played out in the streets, precincts, jails, and courtrooms of Los Angeles, Ryan Gattis's The System is the harrowing story of a crimeâfrom moments before the bullets are fired, to the verdict and its violent aftershocksâtold through the vivid chorus of those involved, guilty, the innocent, and everyone in between.