The Black Hand: The Story of Rene "Boxer" Enriquez and His Life in the Mexican Mafia

Chris Blatchford

Oct 2009 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

THE BLACK HAND is the true story of Rene Enriquez, aka "Boxer," and his rise in a secret criminal organization, a new Mafia, that already has a grip on all organized crime in California and soon all of the United States. This Mafia is using a base army of an estimated 60,000 heavily armed, loyal Latino gang members, called Surenos, driven by fear and illicit profits. They are the most dangerous gang in American history and they wave the flag of the Black Hand.

Mafioso Enriquez gives an insider′s view of how he devoted his life to the cause--the Mexican Mafia, La Familia Mexicana, also known as La Eme--only to find betrayal and disillusionment at the end of a bloody trail of violence that he followed for two decades.

And now, award-winning investigative journalist Chris Blatchford, with the unprecedented cooperation of Rene Enriquez, reveals the inner workings, secret meetings, and elaborate murder plots that make up the daily routine of the Mafia brothers. It is an intense, never-before-told story of a man who devoted his life to a bloody cause only to find betrayal and disillusionment.

Based on years of research and investigation, Chris Blatchford has delivered a historic narrative of a nefarious organization that will go down as a classic in mob literature.

Ratings and reviews

Those of people choosing to see only there own so they use a traderous & self-serving informant as their point of referance - which dehumanized those spoken about...the views of the people who's ENTIRE essence is portrayed as monstrous...& last, that of their families. Who know another side of them that can be warmhearted & deferential, but that is disregarded as factitious.

stole something went to jail, got out, did drugs stole something went to jail. started stabbing people, and more people, did more drugs, stabbed more people, blah blah blah Same repetitive crap over and over. All its really about is a bunch of junkies. One of the more boring crime true story's

This guy had two people executed has stabbed numerous people and used and sold drugs while in prison. No matter what info he gave the police he shouldn't have been released just a name change and moved into another prison.

About the author

Chris Blatchford is an investigative reporter and author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller Three Dog Nightmare. He has won numerous commendations and awards for his reports, including nine Emmy Awards and a Peabody for his investigation into Italian Mafia infiltration of MCA/Universal's music and home video divisions. He lives in Los Angeles.