"Shower Posse" is not a book of dry-bone impersonal
chronological
criminal events. It's a detailed story of Vivian's Blake life. Growing up
in
Jamaica to his immigration to New York, his loves, friends, and
trials in his new country, leading up to his life as one of America's most
wanted. Very detailed.
"The Shower Posse is the tell all saga...of Jamaica's infamous
drug
cartel. Headed by the elusive, master-mind Vivian Blake." Vivian Blake
was born on May 11th, 1955 to Gloria Henriques at
Kingston's Jubilee
Hospital in Jamaica. Sixteen years old at the time Gloria would later
mother 4 other children by another man.
In 1966 Vivian's grandmother bought a two bedroom house in the new
Tivoli Gardens housing complex, and
invited Vivian's mother, and the
now four other siblings to come and live with her.
As the events of Vivian's life unfold excelling in school, the sports of
cricket and
soccer. The help he got from
other people
just by asking,
you get
a sense that
this
was a persistent very likable young man.
Vivian graduated from St. Georges college in
1972 with 3 GCE O' Levels passed out of 5 taken.
It was a sad time, for he had lost his mother in a
car accident in1969...Father Tom Bradley -- a priest
at St. George's -- arranged for Vivian to receive a
scholarship to attend St. Joseph college
in Philadelphia. Unfortunately, Vivian passed on the
scholarship, because his grandmother had lost her
job...he was issued a visa by the American embassy
to go on a U.S tour with his [soccer] team on August 10,
1973.
The stage was now being set in the eighties, for one
of the most
brutal
drug cartels this country has ever
known. But how Vivian
Blake got there, the
many twist
and turns, makes for some fascinating
reading. Including the roles
of the CIA and the Jamaican
government.