Introduction: Anybody Can1. The Most Interesting Book the Old Man Had Ever Read2. Birth / School: Before It Got Ugly3. Skipping Stones / Getting Stoned: Grade School4. Failing the Seventh Grade5. Ninth Grade in the Psych Ward (Until They Threw Him Out) 6. Last Chance High: The Baltimore Experimental High School7. Spanish Harlem: There Could Have Been Blood8. Big Fucking Indian9. Bonnie and Clyde10. Shootout on Ready11. The Stolen Carpet and the Fat Girl: State of Maryland Inmate No. 215-799, March 1991 to August 199412. Misadventure En Route to the Underworld: 1995 through 199813. Frank White / Inmate Junkie14. Free to Go15. Third Time a Charm16. College / Career / Shirt and Tie17. One Promise18. The D TrainEpilogue: A Day in His Best Life, Thanksgiving Weekend 2020

Rafael Alvarez is a former City Desk reporter for the Baltimore Sun and former writer for the HBO drama, The Wire. He is the author of many books of fiction and nonfiction.