Which book is set in the 1930s and features Pinkie as the leader of a gang?
Pinkie Brown Pinkie Brown Pinkie Brown is a fictional character, the main character and antihero in Graham Greene's 1938 novel "Brighton Rock". In the novel, Brown is portrayed as the 17-year-old leader and enforcer of a small-time gang in the Brighton underworld that runs numbers and protection rackets for Colleoni, the local kingpin. A violent sociopath, he brutalizes and murders people, even his own henchmen, without remorse, and is incapable of feeling love or taking pleasure in life. In the beginning of the novel, he kills Fred Hale, a chronic gambler who assisted a rival gang in dispatching Brown's predecessor; that crime
Gang Leader for a Day Gang Leader for a Day Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets is an autobiography written by Sudhir Venkatesh. The book chronicles the life of the urban poor and explores Venkatesh's views on poverty, money, gangs, drugs, and life in Chicago. "Gang Leader for Day" recounts the day-to-day life of the urban poor, Sudhir Venkatesh, an Indian born sociology graduate student, headed to Robert Taylor Homes. His nearly decade long research yielded valuable data, reveals the corporation like workings of the street level drug trade, and serves as the basis of this book. "Gang Leader