A gripping, adrenaline rush of a story about growing up on the streets, Michael Baptiste's first novel unfolds like an epic saga of crime and punishment. Presided over by a main character called Michael Banner, known on the streets as Spits, Cracked Dreams takes readers onto the down-and-dirty streets of the Bronx and into the lives of a drug gang called the Time Bombs. They fear that their territory is being threatened by a rival gang so they devise a plan to eliminate the competition, but shadowing their every move are the FBI who have sworn to stop them.