Pearce Hansen

Street Raised Pearce Hansen

Oakland, 1984. Skinheads prowl the streets, a serial killer talks to God through the business end of a butcher knife, and Mexican dope runners dump their chained enemies into the river alive. Navigating a blasted landscape of feral dogs, crooked cops, and violent criminals is Speedy, an ex-con come home to a litany of problems: the cops want his ass back in prison, his friends are being murdered by the local drug lords, and he still can't figure if his ex-girlfriend wants him or wants him dead. As the tension squeezes tighter and tighter, Speedy enlists the help of his homeless crackhead brother and his bouncer best friend on a suicide mission towards the one grimy light at the end of the tunnel: a big pile of drug money, just waiting to be stolen from the thugs that guard it.

Speedy has raised, and he will take whatever he damn well pleases. For better or worse, he is what he is: a savage motherfucker.