Web of the City Audiobook (Free)

“Get it straight at this time: these aren’t kids doing offers of war. They mean business. They are junior-grade killers and public enemies one through five thousand.”

In Rusty Santoro’s neighborhood, the kids carry knives, chains, bricks, and broken glass. And when they battle, they fight dirty, departing the streets littered with the bodies of the injured as well as the inactive. Rusty desires out-but you can’t simply leave from a fresh York street gang. And his decision may keep his family members to pay a terrible about Internet of the town price.

First published over fifty percent a century back and inspired from the author’s real-life experience heading undercover inside a street gang, Web of the City was Harlan Ellison’s first novel and marked the long-form debut of 1 of the most electrifying, unforgettable, and controversial voices of twentieth-century characters. Appearing here with the brief story “No Video game for Kids,” which Ellison published for the pulp mags of the 1950s, Web of the City presents both a snapshot of a lost period and a family portrait of violence and grief as timely as today’s most brutal headlines. Includes an introduction read by the writer.

“One of the great living American brief story authors.”-Washington Post, praise for the author