By Any Means Necessary

By Jacquere Doran

The West side of Vallejo California circa 1995 was a volatile place. Still shaken and wounded from a string of serial bombings, the city watched, horrified, as its homicide rate tripled in the prior year. It's hardly a suitable environment for a child to grow up, but for disadvantaged black youth, few other options are available. From this environment emerges Josiah "Jojo" Wilson-- a gangster, a gentleman and a young scholar--and the protagonist of By Any MeansNecessary, a portrait of a young blood on the rise. Jojo works his way through the vast and complex network of "patnas" that surrounds him. But he has to be careful: the cherries and berries signal nothing but trouble and the Elroys roll at least three deep. It's up to Jojo and his friends, relatives and associates to navigate it successfully. For first-time author Jacquere Doran, part one of By Any Means Necessary - the initial installment of a four-part series-- is a personal affair. It revisits, in often-lurid detail, memories of his upbringing, by a single mother, in the hometown of Mac Dre and E40. For them, the California dream shines dimly. Poverty, crime and violence are a part of the day-to-day life a young man like Jojo has little hope of escaping. Never short of a plan or a scheme to make things happen, Jojo wheels and deals through exhilarating adventures with his streetwise love interest by his side. Whatever he does, he does with calculation. It's a competitive and dangerous life lived in the projects and on the streets. Only the strong survive. Doran bases his experiences on the triumphs and the hardships he encountered firsthand on the take-no-prisoners streets of west Fairfield: love, death, violence,police brutality, racism, and the art of the hustle. By Any Means Necessary will shock, surprise and, most importantly, enlighten the reader unacquainted with the reality of places "where the other half live" up close and personal. Jojo Wilson didn't come to play. He plays to win, and he'll do it... by any means necessary.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1983249629
• ISBN13: 9781983249624
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"