01626nam a2200265 i 4500003000500000005001700005008004100022020004000063040002500103082001400128100002900142245007400171264008200245264001100327300002300338336002100361337002500382338002300407500009100430520073100521650003601252650002401288650002001312700002801332PPAK20251016125957.0251016t20242024nyu    gr     000 f eng d  a9780316581400cRM 104.50qpaperback  aPPAKbengcPPAKerda04223a813.61 aHarper, Jordan,eauthor.10aThe Last King of California /cJORDAN HARPER ; FOREWORD BY S.A. COSBY 1aNew York :bMulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, c2024 4c©2024  a290 pages ;c21 cm  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aOriginally published in the United Kingdom by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., September 2022  aThis stirring and brutal bildungsroman tells the story of young Luke Crosswhite, who after years apart from his criminal family returns to their flock deep in the California desert. Luke’s father is serving time for a brutal murder that Luke himself witnessed; now, his uncle vies for power and rival biker gangs encroach on the family’s various criminal enterprises. A sensitive boy grown hard man, Luke navigates the vicious pressures of “home,” and the loyalties to his old friend, Cassie, who has hatched a scheme with her boyfriend Pretty Baby to escape the control of the gang, the Combine. Hanging over these desperate, lonesome parties is the gang’s motto, tattooed indelibly across the heart: Blood is Love.10aChildren of criminals vFiction20aCriminals vFiction20aGangs vFiction1 aCosby, S.A.,eforeword.