Man Up

About the Book

Hi-top fade security protectionist hero Buckett Collins summons all his courage (“man up,” in African-American urban parlance) and battles to protect his beloved daughter, Becky, from the clutches of Bane, the sinister, hell-bent leader of the Rocky Ensergent terrorist gang. Becky witnessed Bane murder Buckett’s friend during a gang assault upon a group of black community activists. Enraged and filled with revenge, the homicidal Bane is determined to rape, kill, and stop Becky from reporting his deadly crime to the police. Amid a savage blood feud between Bane’s mob and their hated, equally bloodthirsty rivals, the Satan’s Guerilla gang, Buckett and Becky struggle to gain justice within the ghetto terrorism of 1990s South-Central Los Angeles.

About the Author

As a native of Los Angeles, California, Mr. McCormick had a literary career that began in 1971 while he attended Foshay Jr. High School (now the Foshay Learning Center). He was a writer for the Los Angeles Sentinel, the Compton Bulletin, and a few other publications. He was former executive editor of the now-defunct Los Angeles Balance News newspaper in 1988. He received an association of arts degree in journalism from Los Angeles City College in 1986. Mr. McCormick’s first novel, Tales of Tyrone (2006, Authorhouse), won honorable mention in the 2008 Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards.