- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Milo Books (1 May 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1903854350
- ISBN-13: 978-1903854358
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,847,427 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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At a New Year Party in 2003, two teenage girls were cut down in a hail of machine gun fire. The brutal killings of Latisha Shakespear and Charlene Ellis made world headlines - and brought the Birmingham Gang War to national attention. Two warring factions had brought death to the city's streets over several years in a battle for control of the booming crack cocaine market. But who were they? Investigative journalist Amardeep Bassey was the first to identify the rival gangs - the Johnson Crew and the Burger Bar Boys - and detail their bloody feud. In HomeBoys he traces their roots back to the mid-1980s, when groups of young black men banded together to counter threats to their community from the Far Right. They evolved into criminal street gangs that could call on almost 300 street soldiers. The Johnson Crew's territory was Aston and Nechells. The Burger Bar Boys claimed Handsworth - scene of the 1985 riots - Lozells and Perry Bar. From the beginning they were at war, fuelled by the growing market for crack. They forged links with gangs in Manchester and London and acquired a fearsome array of weaponry. Through dozens of interviews with current and former gang members and law enforcement sources, Bassey pieces together the extraordinary story of their conflict, the police operations against them, and the emergence of a plethora of young gangs willing to take their place.
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