Pachuco

by Dennis Rodriguez

HISPANIC FICTION / Life in the East LA. barrio is tense and turbulent like a dark and threatening storm you know it's all going to come down on you, but you don't know how bad it will be. For Mando "El Pachuco" Garcia, a Chicano prize-fighter with a sexy female manager and a devastating hook, it comes down hard and heavy. Mando and Gloria successfully mix business with sexual pleasure until only one man stands between them and the title. But Mando's past reaches out and grabs him by the throat and they are swept into the vortex of a bitter and violent battle between barrio batos.

212 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 31, 1980