<B>Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling memoir of his early life robbing jewelry stores until he found fame and fortune—while a handful of bad choices sent his former crime partner down an incredibly different path.</B><BR/><BR/> Ice-T rose to fame in the late 1980s, earning acclaim for his music before going on to enthrall television audiences as Odafin “Fin” Tutuola in <I>Law & Order: Special Victims Unit</I>. But it could have gone much differently.<BR/><BR/> In this “poignant and powerful” (<I>Library Journal</I>, starred review) memoir, Ice-T and Spike, his former crime partner—collaborating with <I>New York Times</I> bestselling author Douglas Century—relate the shocking stories of their shared pasts, and how just a handful of decisions led to their incredibly different lives. Both grew up in violent, gang-controlled Los Angeles neighborhoods and worked together to orchestrate a serie