Life Sentence

Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighbourhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notorious by ''The Wire.'' Drug deals dominate street corners and ruthless, casual violence abounds.

Montana Barronette grew up in the centre of it all. The leader of the gang ''Trained to Go,'' or TTG, when he was finally arrested, he had been nicknamed ''Baltimore''s Number One Trigger Puller.'' Under Tana''s reign, TTG dominated Sandtown. When a string of murders were linked to TTG, each with dozens of witnesses too intimidated to testify, three detectives set out to put Tana in prison for life. For them, this was never about drugs: It was about serial murder.

Acclaimed journalist Mark Bowden, who spent his youth in the white suburbs of Baltimore, returns to the city with exclusive access to the FBI files and unprecedented insight into one of the city''s deadliest gangs and its notorious leader. As he traces the rise and fall of TTG, Bowd