Safe, Gattis - B -

                                               The author is an Angeleno with an ear for the street and the writer of some fascinating material about folks getting by on the bottom of the ladder. Here, we meet Ghost, a safecracker dying of cancer in his 30's, and Glasses, a double agent trying to survive between his gang and the DEA. Ghost does jobs for the DEA,  manages to skim from them, and is using the money to help others, sort of a Robin Hood of the ghetto. Glasses made a hit in the stock market with some settlement money from an LAPD beating and is hoping to get the hell out of town. Both are fundamentally good men and it is inevitable that their paths will cross. They do. One survives.