Are there any good books that have lots of fighting in them? I need help making a novel and I need some help.

Question

I want to make a book about a group of people who are in a city who get tired of crime and crooks running amok in their city. I kind of want to base it on a hybrid of old and new school fighting games, which ranges the gambit of The Warriors to the Final Fight and Streets of Rage/Bare Knuckle games, among other games, martial arts films, and other things like ATL and other movies that deal with various cultures within a city. Please give me some help. Also, some information about gangs and various criminal organizations would help, too. Thank you for the help.

Jesse

Answer 1

Research classic Asian literature and watch martial arts films. I know you aren't probably interested in the genre, but you can learn a ton from other people's popular work. Both recent and classical work. Do a library topic search while your there, using the keywords you used in your own question, and soon you'll have a ton of reference material. Just don't cheat and plagiarize!

Answer 2

Jesse, try:
Monster - by Sanyika Shakur

"Monster" Kody, today known as Sanyika Sakur, spent 16 years as a "gangbanger" in South Central Los Angeles. His account begins at age 11, when he was inducted into the ranks of the Crips, and ends (hundreds of bodies later) with Scott serving a seven-year prison term for beating a crack dealer. Throughout, he successfully conveys a sense of the siege mentality that prevails every minute of every day, due to the daily barrage of gang-on-gang violence. Names of derivative Crip gangs (e.g., Rollin' Sixties, Hoovers, Grape Street Watts Crips) and gang members (e.g., Li'l Hunchy, Tray Ball, Huckabuck) flit across the pages in a confusing manner, but Scott pushes the narrative forward with scarcely a glance backward, and, ultimately, names and incidents are not important. Unfortunately, Scott was in prison during the violence that followed last year's Rodney King incident and thus sheds little light on the peace treaty forged between the Bloods and Crips. Although unrepentant, Scott today is dedicated to ending gang violence.

Answer 3

Battle Circle by Piers Anthony, it's about a post nuclear double edged socity of techies living inside mountains and a far more numerous sub society in the outside world where each person is surnamed by the weapon they use in the battle circle! this book will alow you to see how differing weapons and moves and their counterstrikes can make multiple seemingly similar fight scenes divergent and interesting.

given the techie / outsider divide it caters also for your hybrid old /nu skool requirements.

Answer 4

Lord of the Rings

Answer 5

west side story

-its contains a lot of fighiting, but it is intersintg, because it has romance in it as well.

It is a copy versionof Romeo and Juliet, but it is easier to follow.

Hope I helped=]

Answer 6

Jake Arrnott - they kill coppers
Kevin Sampson - Awaydays