程牧阳。 这个名字对俄罗斯黑帮来说，等同于“China”。 对在莫斯科的死亡边境辛苦赚钱的中国人来说，是“救世主”。 而在那些共同掌控着中国绵长边境线的家族眼里，这个人，是最大的华裔“军火商人”。 惟独对她来说， 他只是那个笑起来像波斯猫，或是狐狸的，漂亮的混血男孩子。 她是中越边境毒枭的妹妹，早已习惯在刀风血雨的世间独立自持。 她的路，是被迫选择，因为别无它选。 而他，是在善恶之间，没有任何犹豫地选了一条血腥的道路。 人活百年，不过一场黄粱美梦。黄梁梦短，何必贪求？ 可他若不贪求，她就不可能认识他。 他和她在一起，总像个执念深重的人。 她又何尝不是？ 这场相遇，从一开始就注定是劫难，只是他与她都不忍停步—— 多一秒，再多一秒，去看看悬崖还有几步之遥…… 纵情，才是这世上最奢侈的贪婪。

《教父》这部小说的不同凡响的艺术魅力就在于：尽管描写的全是坏蛋，但作者曲尽妙笔，竟然能让读者不痛恨个别坏蛋，而痛恨整个龌龊的社会结构。教父及其继承人——他的小儿子迈克尔本来都是坏透了的坏蛋，但是却并不显得令人痛恨，因为他们杀人是整个不合理的社会逼出来的，因为他们杀的也都是更坏的人，他们同那些在幕后“坐地分赃”的政客比较起来，在“坏”的程度上，可真是小巫见大巫了。 美国纽约五大黑势力集团之一的维托·考利昂一家采用多种极端手段，实现了在整个美国黑暗势力团体中的独尊地位。在这场斗争中有黑团伙之间的火拼；有走私贩毒的嚣张；有赌场的烟云；有红灯区的人欲横流。本书被认为是描写资本主义社会中黑社会现象的最具权威的作品。 ">教父 英文版>>

The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics . Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrée into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment. When Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago's most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty. A first-year grad student, he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of the next decade inside the projects under JT's protection, documenting what he saw there. Over the next seven years, Venkatesh observed JT and the rest of the gang as they operated their crack selling business, conducted PR within their community, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang's complex organizational structure. Gang Leader for a Day is an inside view into the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in an urban war zone. It is also the story of a complicated friendship between two young and ambitious men, a universe apart.