After witnessing his parents’ murder as a kid, Oakland hustler J.T. Trigger grows into a street tactician leading a tight crew. When a judge flips them into a covert “New World Gangsters” unit, J.T. targets crack kingpin Short Mitch sparking a war that threatens to destroy or save his community and love ones, while racking up the street interventions they need to justify release from the program one day.

SYNOPSIS:

N-W-G (New World Gangsters) focuses on confronting the drug epidemic exploiting low income communities around the world. The story follows the exploits of protagonist J.T. who as a preteen witnesses his parents murder at the hands of crack drug kingpin Short Mitch. As his father was a prominent and well known marijuana dealer, J.T. inevitably follows in his father’s footsteps inheriting his business as well as his reputation and legacy under the guidance of his uncle as he matures to adulthood. They run a tight crew and just as his father’s prominent reputation preceded him Short Mitch eventually sees J.T. as a threat to his crack empire.

The circumstances of J.T.’s life change forever when he crosses paths with a hard-nosed judge who has a vision to stem the tide of what he sees as the systemic injustice represented by the school to prison pipeline of primarily young brown faces flooding his courtroom on a daily basis to be prosecuted. To that end he creates the N-W-G Learning Academy. Teaching young people who haven’t become too entrenched in gang life yet, technical skills and creative arts training to help them become productive citizens on the academic side of the house, and to secretly conceal using the street savvy fighting skills of hardcore gangsters to secretly fight crime on the covert side of the house.

The judge’s profile for recruits are those who find themselves facing any ten plus year prison sentence as the sweet spot in their profiles. Knowing if the recruit were to chance a trial will likely be found guilty he has little trouble convincing them to join his program of covert crime fighters. And, since the recruits know if they violate the terms of their contracts they will in all likelihood be tried and found guilty on their original charges as well as any violation charges, there is little incentive for them to violate the terms. Pitching that any seized assets of their criminal targets go to help self fund the program as well as ridding the community of high value criminal targets the judge’s covert program has a high percentage success rate for approval.

The recruits work their way up the ladder to finally land on the elite sanctions list, (targeting ever bigger and badder criminals of all ilk, and/or social status), selected for sanction by the judge and his field proxy. J.T. and his crew find themselves in the judges sweet spot when a warehouse drug deal goes awry and they are forced to eliminate a crew of Colombians sanctioned by Short Mitch and his main distributor Bo to eliminate J.T. and his crew. As the double cross ends in failure J.T.’s crew is snitched out as those responsible for a warehouse full of corpses. Meantime, having found out it was Short Mitch and Bo who setup the warehouse double cross J.T. and his crew begin their mask clad covert war against their crack enterprises. However, being two sides to every war, when J.T. is forced to kill Bo’s younger brother during a card game dispute instigated by J.T., Bo takes up arms and wages his own war against J.T., causing irreparable harm to both sides. J.T.’s uncle becomes a casualty, and his pregnant singing star girlfriend a pawn in a plot to lure J.T. to his death. Their progress lands them on the elite sanctions list officially targeting Short Mitch.

Once Short Mitch becomes an official target and things heat up he enlists the help of his corrupt political allies, uncovers the truth, and launches a political campaign to sabotage New World Gangsters. The judge is blindsided, and he and his right hand man go to work trying to figure out the source of the leak and apparent corruption.

In between it all J.T. keeps his crew on track cruising the streets in their black classic muscle cars racking up successful street crime interventions satisfying their program objectives, and moving them closer to their possible release from the program one day.

As Short Mitch watches his empire begin to crumble, in the end having found it was Short Mitch who killed his parents, when the moment of truth arrives J.T. has to struggle with revenge, or to follow orders and bring him in so they can follow the money to the top of the cocaine pipeline overseas testing his integrity to abide by the program rules. Displaying growth and constraint, (and a growing respect in seeing how their efforts have helped to clean up their community) and realizing Short Mitch is just the tip of the iceberg, he chooses to follow the money and their next chapter sees them embark on their first international mission to capture or eliminate the Colombian cartel drug lord at his jungle compound. Feared by many, but loved by many more, the new mask clad N-W-G mystery saviors of their community are born. Predators find no sanctuary as they partner with international New World Gangster counterparts in countries around the world, searching out criminals from the bottom to the top bringing them to justice wherever in the world the trail may lead. Whoever, wherever, whatever it doesn’t matter, it’s on!