What if a small-time hustler with a shady past finds his dream job, getting paid to keep crooks in business? That’s exactly what happens in 77th and Broadway: A Decade in a World of Crime when Richie Smooth is hired to help a struggling LA bail bondsman, who breaks all the rules, salvage his failing business. This crime fiction is set in the mid 70’s and 80’s in Los Angeles prior to the advent of crack cocaine and meth. A superbly crafted plot interweaves a series 25 true-event crime stories into one roller coaster ride entailing thugs, dealers and unscrupulous characters whose lives illuminate issues of social injustice, corruption, betrayal, power and punishment…all who roll the dice and gamble to come-up big, wind-up in prison, or stretched-out on a cold slab in the coroner’s office, DOA.