Slab City: Tales from an Outlaw Town

Résumé du livre

The San Andreas Fault ends at Slab City, CA. The fruits and nuts of America roll here. Only the outlaws land upright. Slab City is popularly known for freedom, Salvation Mountain, East Jesus, and sunshine. But an underworld supports it. There are drug smugglers, human traffickers, ex-cons, men and women on the lam, misdemeanors and felons, addicts, cat burglars, arsonists, con artists, car jacks, barefoot kingpins, high IQ crooks, Jesse Jameses and Butch Cassidys, bikers, mercenaries, terrorists, retirement pasture for Special Forces, foreign intelligence, bent cops, police informants, war veterans, washed out soldiers, trust fund activists, state dole riders, transgender pickpockets, Dirty Kids, gypsies, hobos, aging hippies, Brotherhood of Eternal Love, Rainbow Gatherers, Who's Who of celebrity criminals, wide-eyed tourists, messiahs, and Utopians. This is the last free place on earth where good and evil have decided to duke it out. These are the true tales from an outlaw town by a resident.