Shower Posse

Told in the first person by Vivian Blake, the man who ran the operation, this account traces how he built a fortune through shrewd dealmaking while his enforcers kept neighborhoods in line through fear. The crew had come up in Jamaica, where killings were rarely solved, and under the Shower name they fired indiscriminately at whoever stood in the way. Their guns, fingerprints and methods left no trail, and many American officers had never encountered anyone like them. Their reckless approach to violence produced more than 1,400 murders, a count that made the group infamous.

The book will appeal to readers drawn to crime, suspense and the drug underworld. Its pages cover rival power struggles, the rise to gangland prosperity, betrayal and survival. Blake offers candid, detailed insight into how Shower actually functioned from within, and he ties the group to many high-profile unsolved killings around the world. A sixteen-page photo insert includes more than fifty images that have never been published, showing members and crime scenes.