"Ed McBain" is one of the pen names of American author and screenwriter Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926-2005), who legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952.
While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956.
He also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, Dean Hudson, Evan Hunter, and Richard Marsten.
THis book teaches you not to be in a gang and how they can be mr ebin baciln know tha is the author he wrote the story because lost his brother to a gang . and the best quote i ever heard was " you live once so make every moment count because it might be your last"