The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of Boxer Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer

THE BLACK HAND is the true story of Rene Enriquez, aka Boxer, and his rise in a secret criminal organization, a new Mafia, that already has a grip on all organized crime in California and soon all of the United States. This Mafia is using a base army of an estimated 60,000 heavily armed, loyal Latino gang members, called Surenos, driven by fear and illicit profits. They are the most dangerous gang in American history and they wave the flag of the Black Hand.Mafioso Enriquez gives an insiders view of how he devoted his life to the causethe Mexican Mafia, La Familia Mexicana, also known as La Emeonly to find betrayal and disillusionment at the end of a bloody trail of violence that he followed for two decades.And now, awardwinning investigative journalist Chris Blatchford, with the unprecedented cooperation of Rene Enriquez, reveals the inner workings, secret meetings, and elaborate murder plots that make up the daily routine of the Mafia brothers. It is an intense, neverbeforetold story of a man who devoted his life to a bloody cause only to find betrayal and disillusionment.Based on years of research and investigation, Chris Blatchford has delivered a historic narrative of a nefarious organization that will go down as a classic in mob literature.