130th Altgeld Gardens

Welcome to the "Toxic Doughnut."

If you miss the exit, you're gone.

At the far edge of Chicago, where the city limits end and the industrial wasteland begins, sits Altgeld Gardens. It's an island trapped between a sewage plant, a landfill, and the steel mills that rain "Gray Snow" down on the residents every day.

Malik Vance is just trying to breathe. A warehouse worker doing his best to keep his grandmother, Ms. Hattie, and his erratic twin sister, Nia, afloat, Malik keeps his head down and his hands clean.

But when Nia is snatched by a sex trafficking ring and shipped down I-65 to Indianapolis, Malik's quiet life is over.

To get her back, Malik has to steal a car, dodge State Troopers in the "Corn Corridor," and walk into a motel room with a gun he barely knows how to use. But the real war is waiting for him back home.

•Bishop, the paranoid King of Block 10, is hiding a secret that could destroy his empire.
•Big T, the ruthless Stone from Riverdale, is holding Hattie's food money hostage.
•Darius, Malik's 15-year-old brother, is eager to prove he's a shooter.

From the urine-stained breezeways of the Gardens to the neon-lit motels of Naptown, 130TH: ALTGELD GARDENS is a story about how far a brother will go to save his blood—and the terrible price of escaping the Mud.

"Poison in the air. Blood in the streets."

For fans of The Coldest Winter Ever, True to the Game, and gritty urban thrillers that refuse to look away.

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