Want to try before you buy? Excerpts from The Brooklyn Wars are available at several sites:

• Complete intro chapter “Scenes,” exclusively here at brooklynwars.com.
• Gothamist’s week-long series “Bushwick Wars,” adapted from chapter 2, “Blackout.”
• Bruce Ratner: the man who brought the Nets to Brooklyn, adapted from chapter 4, “Turf,” at Vice Sports.
• How the Nets arena changed its Brooklyn neighborhood, also from “Turf,” at Field of Schemes.