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Product Description: The follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel Platinum, Diamond Life returns to the smoke and mirrors world of fame with brand new characters and more true to life plotlines.Alex Maxwell’s career as a journalist and celebrity ghostwriter is taking off, but it pales in comparison to her rapper husband Birdie’s multi-platinum debut and world tour...read more

Paperback:

9781451625547 | Original edition (Touchstone Books, February 7, 2012), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel Platinum, Diamond Life returns to the smoke and mirrors world of fame with brand new characters and more true to life plotlines.

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A suspenseful memoir from the real life American gangster, Frank Lucas In his own words, Frank Lucas recounts his life as the former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who ran Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. From being taken under the wing of old time gangster Bumpy Johnson, through one of the most successful drug smuggling operations, to being sentenced to seventy years in prison, Original Gangster is a chilling look at the rise and fall of a modern legacy.  Frank Lucas realized that in order to gain the kind of success he craved he would have to break the monopoly that the Italian mafia held in New York. So Frank cut out middlemen and began smuggling heroin into the United States directly from his source in the Golden Triangle by using coffins. Making a million dollars per day selling “Blue Magic”—what was known as the purest heroin on the street—Frank Lucas became one of the most powerful crime lords of his time, while rubbing shoulders with the elite in entertainment, politics, and crime. After his arrest, Federal Judge Sterling Johnson, the special narcotics prosecutor in New York at the time of Lucas’ crimes, called Lucas and his operation “one of the most outrageous international dope-smuggling gangs ever, an innovator who got his own connections outside the U.S. and then sold the narcotics himself in the street.” This powerful memoir reveals what really happened to the man whose career was dramatized in the 2007 feature film American Gangster, exposing a startling look at the world of organized crime.

Hardcover:

9780312544898 | St Martins Pr, June 8, 2010, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: A suspenseful memoir from the real life American gangster, Frank Lucas In his own words, Frank Lucas recounts his life as the former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who ran Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Paperback:

9780312571641 | Griffin, August 16, 2011, cover price $16.99

Miscellaneous:

9781429923859 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, June 8, 2010), cover price $12.99

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Product Description: You only think you want this life . . .   Alex Maxwell is planning her wedding to up-and coming music artist Birdie, ghostwriting video vixen Cleopatra Wright’s memoir, and she’s just been assigned the story of the year by her editor in chief at a major music industry magazine—an article about the glamorous lives of women married to platinum-selling hip-hop artists...read more

Paperback:

9781439160268 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, May 3, 2011), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: You only think you want this life .

Miscellaneous:

9781439165003 | Touchstone Books, July 6, 2010, cover price $8.99

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Product Description: In his own words, real life American Gangster Frank Lucas recounts his life as the former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who ran Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Determined to break the Italian mafia's monopoly over drug smuggling in New York, Frank cut out middlemen and began smuggling heroin into the United States directly from his source in the Golden Triangle by using coffins...read more
By Cary Hite (narrator), Aliya S. King (contributor) and Frank Lucas

CD/Spoken Word:

9781441740380 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 8, 2010), cover price $100.00 | also contains Original Gangster: The Real Life Story of One of America's Most Notorious Drug Lords: Library Edition | About this edition: In his own words, real life American Gangster Frank Lucas recounts his life as the former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who ran Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

By Aliya S. King (contributor)

Miscellaneous:

9780446537421 | Grand Central Pub, August 29, 2008, cover price $9.99

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