Author: Rettig, Richard P., Manual J. Torres, and Gerald R. Garrett,
Title: Manny a Criminal-Addict's Story.
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1977). Fair HB. Life history of Manny Torres from being a young Puerto Rican boy in NYC to his involvements in delinquent gang activities. and to those in the rackets and the underworld. His desperate years as a heroin addict, as a criminal, as a prison inmate, and as a parolee discussed in an unusually frank and straightforward way in the language of street people, dope addicts, and prison cons. It exposes a social world that very few of us experience firsthand and enriches the understanding of that world and the theories that try to explain it. Lists of references. Highlighting, underlining, owner notes, corner creases, discoloration near spine.

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