"It's the hottest day of the summer. You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can..." On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

"In a world where criminals make the rules an innocent boy is out to beat them at their own game." Michael (or Fresh as he's well known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt...