*“‘Slipping Into Darkness’ is McCall’s masterwork and, measured against the full landscape of American narrative nonfiction, one of the more remarkable documents of the late 20th century. …the history it documents, the specific, unrepeatable convergence of South Central gang culture, institutional racism, police misconduct, and civic collapse that produced the 1992 riots, is captured here with an intimacy and moral complexity that no subsequent writer has matched. …deserves to be read alongside the canon of American urban nonfiction. ”* **– Claude/Anthropic AI**