{"title":"Ryan Gattis","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"all-involved","title":"All Involved","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 1992 Los Angeles Riots: six days of looting, arson, assault and murder. America's second largest city in chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAll Involved\u003c\/em\u003e, Ryan Gattis weaves a heart-stopping narrative from the perspectives of characters whose stories of the riots were never told. In six sections, each covering a single day, we follow the intersecting lives of seventeen people: gang members, firefighters, nurses, law enforcement officers and graffiti artists, every one changed for ever.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThough the events of \u003cem\u003eAll Involved \u003c\/em\u003eare fictional, every word is infused with authenticity and intimacy. A propulsive and ambitious novel as electrifying as the television series \u003cem\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/em\u003e, this is a mesmerizing epic of crime and opportunity, race, revenge and loyalty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263833260326,"sku":"9781447283164","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/58505714-8a61-4e70-bebc-63fb54482f89.jpg?v=1701086557"},{"product_id":"the-system-limited-edition","title":"The System - Limited Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eExclusive Early Offer to PREM1ER Members. Ryan Gattis is a previous Book of the Month author and his books are truly exceptional. Our limited edition will have sprayed edges - colour to be confirmed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe System can save you, or it can break you . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the sixth of December 1993, a drug dealer named Scrappy is shot and left for dead on her mothers lawn in South Central Los Angeles. A heroin addict witnesses the shooting and seizes the moment to steal Scrappys drugs, as well as the handgun that was dropped at the scene. When hes busted, he names two local gang members as the shooters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheres only one problem: one of them is guilty; the other, innocent. None of that matters, though, when the gun turns up again  miles from where the shooting happened  and both are arrested. Innocent or not, the gang tells them both to keep their mouths shut and take their charges.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith these two off the streets, Little, the unlikeliest of new gang members, is given a very serious job: discover how the gun got moved, who moved it, and why. Because it had to be a frame-up and the cops had to be involved. Hadn't they?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlayed out in the streets, precincts, jails, and courtrooms of Los Angeles, \u003cem\u003eThe System\u003c\/em\u003e by Ryan Gattis is a breakneck journey through every phase of the American criminal justice system. It is the story of a crime  from the moments before shots are fired, to the verdict and its violent aftershocks  told through the vivid chorus of those involved: the guilty, the innocent, the victim, the families who love them, and those simply doing their jobs. After all, justice is a matter of perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263834800422,"sku":"9781509843831","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/aae3116a-8dca-4831-90d9-4eac3f1adc2b.jpg?v=1701086633"},{"product_id":"all-involved-u-s-edition","title":"All Involved - U.S. Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e*Signed and stamped with the authors' personal stamp.*\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA propulsive and ambitious novel as electrifying as \u003cem\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/em\u003e, from a writer hailed as the West Coast's Richard Pricea mesmerizing epic of crime and opportunity, race, revenge, and loyalty, set in the chaotic streets of South Central L.A. in the wake of one of the most notorious and incendiary trials of the 1990s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a fourth officer. Less than two hours later, the city exploded in violence that lasted six days. In nearly 121 hours, fifty-three lives were lost. But there were even more deaths unaccounted for: violence that occurred outside of active rioting sites by those who used the chaos to viciously settle old scores.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA gritty and cinematic work of fiction, \u003cem\u003eAll Involved\u003c\/em\u003e vividly re-creates this turbulent and terrifying time, set in a sliver of Los Angeles largely ignored by the media during the riots. Ryan Gattis tells seventeen interconnected first-person narratives that paint a portrait of modern America itselflaying bare our history, our prejudices, and our complexities. With characters that capture the voices of gang members, firefighters, graffiti kids, and nurses caught up in these extraordinary circumstances, \u003cem\u003eAll Involved\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary tour de force that catapults this edgy writer into the ranks of such legendary talents as Dennis Lehane and George V. Higgins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263842435366,"sku":"9XBK4IFB","price":89.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/ed3c6de6-363d-4d72-9fb3-3be189f3196f.jpg?v=1701086979"}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.live\/collections\/ryan-gattis.oembed","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}