All Them Dogs by Djamel White

Tuesday, May 36, 2026--San Antonio

All Them Dogs by Djamel White is set in an area of Dubin where people live in council houses, are poor, and where drug gangs operate by recruiting young teenagers to do their dirty work so that those running the gangs get rich and keep their hands clean.  Tony ran away to England for 5 years after a murder that would likely have been pinned on him.  He has just returned and has been recruited to be the right-hand man of one of the mid-level guys in the gang--a guy he remembers from being a year ahead of him in school.  But things have changed.  There are now factions wanting to break away from the main gang.  There's more heavy-handed deailings occurring and more murders.  And Tony is going to learn a lot of things he would rather not know and to remember something that he had blocked out of his mind from 5 years ago.  And the reader is going to know all long that Tony should have stayed in London.  He's too sensitive to be involved in this kind of life and has a secret about himself that should have caused him to stay gone.  It's an exciting book with lots of action that provokes lots of thinking on the part of a reader.  I gave the book 4 1/2 stars out of 5.