Black gangster, paperback/donald goines

Raw and true to the street, no one portrays the underground like the godfather of urban lit, Donald Goines .

Trapped in jail for a petty crime, Prince hatches a scheme from his cell to make it big.

Once Ruby, the only woman worthy of his brutal ambition, joins him on the outside, they take down Detroit one hustle at a time.

Dealers, pimps, police and politicians--in the blink of an eye the hood is theirs.

Now, the only thing certain is the cold hard truth of the streets--because with enemies waiting behind every corner, theres only one way to stay on top of the world .

He lived by the code of the streets and his books vividly recreated the street jungle and its predators.

--New Jersey Voice Machiavelli was my tutor, Donald Goines my father figure.

-- Tupac Shakur About author(s): Donald Goines was born in Detroit, Michigan.

He joined the U.

Air Force instead of going into his familys dry cleaning business.

Following his service, he entered into a life of drug addiction and crime.

He received seven prison sentences, serving a total of over six years.

While he was in prison, Goines wrote his first two novels , Dopefiend: The Story of a Black Junkie and Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp.

Goines was shot to death in 1974.