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The Black Hand, the bloody rise and redemption of ''boxer'' Enriquez, a Mexican mob killer, Chris Blatchford

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-314) and index

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The Black Hand

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Chris Blatchford

the bloody rise and redemption of ''boxer'' Enriquez, a Mexican mob killer

Details the life of Rene "Boxer" Enriquez, who after being sent to prison at the age of nineteen joined La Eme--the Mexican mafia--and through his willingness to kill Enriquez rose from a mob enforcer to the upper echelons

1. Blood in, blood out -- 2. Mexican Mafia history -- 3. Boxer beginnings -- 4. Drugs, dealing, robbing, and rebellion -- 5. Boxer graduates to college (prison) -- 6. The wrecking crew -- 7. Boxer and the Black Hand -- 8. Mafia politics: like swimming with sharks in a bloody pool -- 9. Back outside: the brutality of the streets -- 10. Preserving hoodlum honor -- 11. Boxer meets steely-eyed Chuco -- 12. Hit the streets like a wild man -- 13. Shifting loyalties and sweet revenge -- 14. A reign of terror -- 15. Learning a sweet lucrative scam -- 16. Hungry piranhas in a tank -- 17. Die like a man, you punk -- 18. Mafia gratitude goes only so far -- 19. La Eme goes to Hollywood -- 20. Drive-bys, drugs, and the Pepsi generation Mafia -- 21. Dealing with pure evil -- 22. The Eme plot to kill the governor of California -- 23. Operation Pelican Drop -- 24. Calling the shots from prison -- 25. Baby killers -- 26. Dead men don't pay -- 27. Chuco rolls on La Eme -- 28. A rat or just smart? -- 29. A mini-mob convention -- 30. Boxer, Bat, and the Tijuana drug cartel -- 31. It was just business -- 32. Race riot madness -- 33. Phony peace talks -- 34. Growing mob-weary -- 35. Man is made or unmade by himself -- 36. Missing life -- 37. Dropping out of the mob -- 38. A wonderful break -- 39. You can't play by the rules -- 40. La Eme spreading like a cancer -- 41. Trying to be more