01731nam a2200301 i 4500 PPAK 20251016125957.0 251016t20242024nyu gr 000 f eng d 9780316581400 RM 104.50 paperback PPAK eng PPAK rda 23 813.6 813.6 HAR G Harper, Jordan, author. The Last King of California / JORDAN HARPER ; FOREWORD BY S.A. COSBY New York : Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, 2024 ©2024 290 pages ; 21 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Originally published in the United Kingdom by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., September 2022 This 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. Children of criminals Fiction Criminals Fiction Gangs Fiction Cosby, S.A., foreword. ddc B 201250 201250 0 0 PPAK G 2025-11-20 1 813.6 HAR A01891490 2026-07-28 2026-07-07 11:40:39 2026-07-07 B