In this shocking novel of a young girl alone on the streets, Goines delves into yet another facet of the ghetto experience- the dark, despair-ridden world of a black girl's soul!
Sandra took to the streets when she was eight years old and tried to fight off the hunger pangs by shoplifting, moving into the profits of drug pushing. Then she met Chink and discovered love and affection.... and rape and murder
A large part of Goines' thirty nine years of life was spent being a successful pimp, a theif, an operator of corn liquor houses, an armed robber, and a small time dope dealer.
He lived the life of the streets and out of that experience he created Prince, the anti-hero of Black Gangster! It's the story of the shocking underworld of black organised crime and the fledgling black "godfather" who goes from teenager ganglord to powerful Detroit mobster. Like the gangsters of the 1920's, he begins with boot-legging and branches out into every known crime
Goines' classic novel of prison life, it has been called "one of the most revealing books ever written about prison life and the bigotry built into the system."
This is the story of Chester Himes, who thought he was the baddest man to come down the street. Behind prison walls he was nothing more than fresh meat.
Again, Based on personal experience! When Donald Goines was discharged from the Air Force, he was addicted to heroin. To support his habit he staged the robbery of a local numbers house. And from that experience came Eldorado Red! It's the vicious story of crooks who get richer with the dollars of the ghetto poor. He's got it knocked; new cars, mellow women and plenty of money. Then he learns that treachery falls at the feet of his own son!
Larry Jackson is better known to his clients as "Daddy Cool" and they know he is the best. He can pull a trigger or toss a knife and never blink an eye. All that counts is the bread and his teenage daughter, Janet. But when Janet is enticed into his stable by a young, smooth-talking pimp named Ronald, Daddy Cool sees red-and goes into action with a fearful vengence!
Donaln Goines continues the gripping, gritty story of crime in the black ghetto begun in Crime Partner. They're all back for blood: Kenyatta, the ganglord with an army of brothers to deal deadly with crooked cops and dope dealers; Benson and Ryan, a black and white detective team, desperate in their fight to stop the black crime wave. It's doomsday when Kenyatta joins them in war against a secret list of drug pushers.
Kenyatta had two ambitions: cleaning the ghetto of all drug traffic and gunning down all racist white cops! But a black and white detective team, Benson and Ryan, is on his tail and has discovered the location of his army's camp. Armed with tanks, they bring a bloody doomsday to his followers. In Kenyatta's Escape, Goines continues his story of the bloody, brutal world of crime he began in Crime Partners and Death List. They're all back for a coast-to-coast chase that spells gripping adventure.
Kenyatta, The living legend, concentrates his army's ruthless forces to rid the community of rampant drug traffic. With the help of Elliot Stone, a black football star and latest recruit to the army, Kenyatta discovers the identity of the fat-cat king of the drug pushers.The crack black and white detective team of Benson and ryan follows kenyatta's trail of blood across the country...and to a final confrontation high atop one of Las Vegas' most glittering hotels
George Jackson was a "Swamp Man," born and bred in the dark watery woods of Mississippi. He was a gentle young man who turned deadly as a water moccasin after he saw what the four hill boys did to his sister. They caught her soon after she got off the bus, home from her first year of college. When they were through with her, she let her mind shut down, fearing to remember. Slipping through the swamps like a ghost, George stalked them, one by one....
In this, his fourth novel, Goines tests the tensile strenght of a ghetto spawn who clawed his way to the top and fights like hell to stay there. He's known as "Earl the Black Pearl," and he's left his homeboys behind-way behind.He's cool, sharp as ice crystal, and it seems no one can touch him. Until someone even higher up puts the heat on and his friends begin dropping like flies-of lead poisoning. That's when Earl fights back...and all hell breaks loose!
Goines takes the reader into the violent world of ghetto prostitution. Whoreson Jones, the novel's hero, is the son of a beautiful black prostitute and an unknown white john. By the age of sixteen, he's a full-fleged pimp, cold-blooded, ruthless. Written in gritty street talk, Whoreson's story affords a startling glimpse into the hell of the inner city, yet bristles with bitter humor and defiant pride.
The story of Otis Tilson, an incredibly comely and tragic homosexual queen. The dialogue is in the gut idiom of the queer-the black ghetto-the ddep south-the underworld-the world of Iceberg Slim, Otis Tilson and his family. It is the story of the black men living in ghetto torture chambers, men who have been and continue to be niggerized and deballed bt the poisonus pus of double-standard justice, racial bigotry, and criminal economic freeze-out, and of the price paid by their children. In this case, Otis Tilson, his older brother, and two beautiful sisters are adrift in the dark world of pimpdom and crime and violence, where good is condemned and evil applauded.
slim gets, real in this very personal,who said slim cries too much, the man was just remeniscing over events of his life, especially the life of a black man trapped in the darkworlds of the underworld, berg describes the hell every black man must go through,in his excistence-pure hell, he describes what a pimp must do to stay ahead of the game, i liked how he told that young dude the real deal about pimping, and that he has tremendous odds against him, yes kiddies not anyone can be a pimp, do not let bet,or mtv, fool you learn the real deal before you get shot-like iceberg warned that particular fellow,who learned that a good whore is always in demand as some italian quickly scooped his girl, then the letter slim wrote to his daddy was deep, then we learned about melvin x, the black panthers, who slim called heroes,there's holly one of berg's old associates who became famous and forgot whewre her roots were, what really got me interested was the uncle tom issue, and how whites create this type of character in america he said the word hope is used to control the blacks of america, then i liked the way berg wrote of why white women date black men, we all heard about those old black penis myth-but this is bryond that, and how black women really deal with white johns in the street, who love critizing, and trying to outlaw prostitution, drugs but are the biggest freaks in america i will not say the names of those who puff and not inhale, or claim that they are somebody,but this is reality, the truest black book ever made besides the nigger bible, definetly a must have, then i like the weay berg adressed that young writer, about what kind of writer he wants to be, and even that berg writes he still catches hell.
