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#1 Essence bestselling author K'wan returns with the explosive fourth installment in the Animal saga.
Animal, the gentle and kind-hearted family man, is still infamous for turning at any moment into a cold-blooded killer. Animal is the product of ruthless abuse and the unforgiving streets-he is the product of the world we all live in.
Is there anything that could push you to the breaking point of murder? Are you absolutely sure there isn't? After all, there's an Animal in all of us.
"K'wan does a masterful job of keeping readers on their toes right up to the very last page."-Publishers Weekly, praise for the author
Dogs howl in the streets, running wild. Birds fall from the sky, dead. Even the sun itself is failing. Nothing about the world is as it was. Nothing can be trusted. Even the power is out. Everywhere. In everything. Evangelists stand on street corners asking if you’ve made your peace with god, because this is the end, isn’t it? All of the portents point to it. Our time is up. We are living in the middle of an extinction event. People are frightened. And it’s only going to get worse. As darkness descends, all hell breaks loose. Terrorists strike hard and fast, taking out the army base at Fort Hamilton, leaving the island of Manhattan vulnerable. There’s talk of an attack on the bridges and tunnels to isolate the island. No one is safe. No one knows what is happening. Jake Quinn is an NYC subway electrician. In another life he was Special Forces. Now he finds himself dragged into a world of conspiracy and danger by a woman he hasn’t spoken to in over a decade. Sandra Keane, his ex-girlfriend, is one of the few that knows what is going on. She has just turned against her paymasters, and now she’s running for her life through the streets of Paris with nowhere left to hide.
As he emerges from beneath the city, Quinn finds two young men spraying graffiti across the subway station walls. These marks aren’t gang tags or band names, they are a message, a call to arms spelled out in a lost language. The Hidden are communicating with each other. Voices in a packed Times Square cry out: “Where are the warriors?” It is just one of the questions that haunts Jake Quinn as he is drawn deeper and deeper into a conspiracy hell-bent on bringing about the fall of man for profit. How do you fight an enemy you cannot see? How do you defeat ghosts? How do you stop some of the richest and most powerful men in the world when they own the shadows? And most important of all, how do you stay alive when the world around you is dying?
“Savile’s in a league of his own.”—Jeremy Duns, author of Free Agent
In The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, the fierce and lyrical icon for criminal reformation describes himself as “ill…from America’s fake façade of justice and democracy.” For Iceberg Slim, the illness may have been a detriment, but for us it’s a gift. His tales serve as a chilling reminder that we are all inmates of one prison or another, and the time to break free has arrived. Iceberg Slim’s story is now depicted in a major motion picture, Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp, which shows his transformation from pimp to the author of seven classic books.
Offering brutal, difficult-to-swallow tales from the underground, this book exposes the author’s inner workings in a way none of his others have, resulting in a straight-out, heartfelt confession.
As if Iceberg Slim’s charismatic words weren’t enough to evoke the essence of this time in his life—the LA underground of the 1960s—each character carries their own baggage, struggles, and influence on Slim’s vision of the world.
“One of the greatest black writers in American history.”—Ice-T
Mama Black Widow tells the tragic story of Otis Tilson, a stunning black drag queen trapped in a cruel queer ghetto underworld. In hopes of escaping the racial bigotry and economic injustice of the South, Otis’ family journeys north from their plantation to an urban promised land. Once in Chicago, Otis and his siblings become prisoners to a wasteland of violence, crime, prostitution, and rape. This is the gut-wrenching tale of the destruction of a family and the truest portrayal of homosexuality in the ghetto ever told.
“Remarkable…It ain’t pretty, but Slim’s bracing ghetto melodrama and famously histrionic voice capture a core of unsentimental truth not just about homosexuality in the ghetto but also about the myths and travails of masculinity itself.”—Publishers Weekly
One house, one robbery, one mistake—sexual intrigue and violent events intermingle in this tense urban thriller.
Cass is a known high roller in the city, and his reign in the heroin trade has lasted for years. People on the street call his gorgeous estate the “White House” because of his political connections and power. His home is untouchable and off-limits to the local hoodlums.
But all this changes the night he meets Draya, an opportunistic beauty queen. She meticulously orchestrates a robbery, which goes smoothly—until the tables turn. Five people walk into the house, but only one walks out.
On that night, pandemonium breaks out at the White House. Murder, double-crossing, and sexual escapades intermingle before a final, unforgettable twist that will shock listeners.
Set in Virginia and Georgia, The Streets Keep Calling is about the choices one makes in order to survive, even if it could mean losing everything.
Breeze is an ex'drug dealer and just did a five-year bid, and now he wants to have a normal life with the love of his life and his children. He is determined to stay on the straight and narrow, so he follows all the probationary rules, working full-time as a janitor. But when the pressure becomes too much to handle, he goes back to what he knows best.
Breeze thinks everything is under control and that he is the happiest man alive, that is until he realizes that his happiness is gained at someone else's expense. How Breeze reconciles his life will have listeners riveted.
Praise for Chunichi: 'Chunichi is the bomb! I'll read anything she puts out.''Nikki Turner, New York Times bestselling author
