Righteous by Joe Ide

Author:Joe Ide [Ide, Joe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01N80CHF5
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Published: 2017-10-16T04:00:00+00:00

The 1995 Caprice had 1995 air-conditioning that hardly made a dent in the sweltering heat. The black paint didn’t help either. Manzo cruised along Magnolia, wondering who gave out the zoning permits and how much they got paid. A mattress company next to an apartment building next to a church next to a house next to a pain clinic next to another apartment building next to an auto body shop. He thought about Isaiah. He was a relentless dude. All these years later looking into what happened to his brother, and then he’s got the cojones to show up at Frankie’s house? Why the hell did Frankie let him in? Isaiah was smart. And fierce in his own way.

A homeboy named Stacks had a beef with Isaiah for busting his brother, a bubble-eyed idiot named Laquez. Stacks decided he’d get back at Isaiah by killing his dog. He took a potshot at Ruffin with his .22 and fortunately for him, he missed. Isaiah was beyond pissed but it wasn’t like him to get physical. He found out Stacks was a baggage handler at LAX. Then he went to an auction and bought a dozen pieces of lost luggage. After he removed all the ID tags, he broke into Stacks’s house and piled the stuff up in the basement. He used a burner and sent Stacks texts: Got any more iPads? Jewelry you sold me was shit. Drop by the crib 2night with $$. Keeping Armani suit for myself. Stacks had no idea what they were about and ignored them. Then Isaiah called the airport police. He said he worked alongside Stacks and he was stealing. No, he didn’t want to give his name. The police paid Stacks a visit. He didn’t think he had anything to hide and let them search the place. He got five years because he wouldn’t give up his partner. No, Isaiah wasn’t anybody to mess with, but there were limits, even for him.

Manzo drove past the elementary school. A low wall ran the length of the playground, a mural on it in bright fiesta colors. Daisies, clowns, flamingoes, a village with happy campesinos working in the fields, a doctor examining a patient, a man in a spacesuit landing on the moon. Was a kid from the barrio supposed to look at that and want to be an astronaut? There should be warnings instead. A homie behind bars or dead on the sidewalk or looking at his food stamp debit card.

There was graffiti on the mural. LIL GENIUS SL 13 ELB. Lil Genius, Sureños Locos 13, East Long Beach. SL13 →. Go in that direction and you’re in Loco territory. ANGEL CPV. Angel killed a Crip Violator. FREE JUAN KVSP. Free Juan from Kern Valley State Prison. Fans of Lil’ Wayne had started that bullshit when he went to Rikers for eight months. LKSRKC. Locos, Kimball Street set, Ramona, kill Crips.

Manzo felt sorry for her, trying to get respect by going heavy into the gangsta thing.

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