The Do-Anything Kids - Paperback

by Christopher Giarratano (Author)

In 1983, graffiti artist Don Tenenbaum starts a gang called 260 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. At the age of 20, he goes to prison. Twelve years later, Don is released from prison, where he learned there is buried treasure under the Obelisk in Central Park. He reassembles his old gang to commit an unlikely heist. However, Don discovers that his two best buddies, Brody and Ken are now men with complicated lives. Brody, who spent time in Bellevue pretending to be a schizophrenic as part of a con job is now a married Christian minister entrenched in an affair with an intoxicating 20-year-old. Meanwhile, Ken has become a darling in the international art world by plagiarizing Don's graffiti from his junior high days. As Ken stands in front of Picasso's Guernica with a spray-paint gun armed and ready, he rants, "Pablo Picasso never tagged up the 2 Line because he didn't have the heart!" Come jaunt into the concrete jungle of maddening love as they commit the crime of the century.