As a serving police officer, Los Angeles Times bestselling author Neal Griffin saw how family ties, loyalty to friends, and their own ambitions could lead young men to make choices that got them hurt, killed, or imprisoned.
He explores this complex web of relationships and pressures in The Burden of Truth .
In a small city in southern California, 18 year-old Omar Ortega is about to graduate high school.
For years, he's danced on the fringes of gang life, trying de.
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