“Obtain it straight at this time: these aren’t babies playing games of war. They imply business. They may be junior-grade killers and public foes one through five thousand.”

In Rusty Santoro’s neighborhood, the kids carry knives, chains, bricks, and broken glass. So when they combat, they fight dirty, leaving the streets littered with the bodies from the injured as well as the useless. Rusty desires out-but you can’t just walk away from a New York street gang. And his decision may keep his family members to pay an awful about Internet of the City price.

First published over fifty percent a century ago and inspired from the author’s real-life experience going undercover in the street gang, Web of the town was Harlan Ellison’s 1st novel and marked the long-form debut of one of the very most electrifying, unforgettable, and controversial voices of twentieth-century words. Appearing here with the short story “No Game for Kids,” which Ellison published for the pulp mags of the 1950s, Web of the town offers both a snapshot of the lost era and a family portrait of assault and grief as timely as today’s most brutal headlines. Includes an introduction read by the author.

“One of the great living American brief story writers.”-Washington Post, praise for the writer