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Straight Outta East Oakland
EN USISBN: 0978913302 bzw. 9780978913304, in Englisch, Soul Shaker Publishing, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
african american,contemporary,genre fiction,literature and fiction,mystery thriller and suspense,urban life, Firstborn Walker is a book worm who dreams of attending one of America's most competitive universities. When his best friend is shot through the forehead with a hollow tip bullet, his desire to flee the mean streets only intensifies. Unemployed, he turns to the only person who can help him secure the money he'll need to supplement his scholarship, a childhood friend known as "Drama." Drama is a charismatic, ultra-violent block hog, an East Oakland crack dealer who makes his living with a triple beam scale and an Uzi submachine gun. He assures Firstborn that he can earn the money he needs in just three months. So, Firstborn becomes a member of the Black Christmas Mob. Now the community college valedictorian must struggle to survive in a game laced with gold diggers, contract killers, hard hitters, marks, knocks, snitches and infiltrators; a world where witness tampering, blinding violence, safehouses, and a relentless cop named "the Hawk" become his new reality. Will Firstborn slip up and catch that triple life sentence? Will a vengeful gang leader called "Latin Caesar" blast a hot one through his forehead? Or will he escape the game and graduate from college? Straight Outta East Oakland tells his suspenseful story.
african american,contemporary,genre fiction,literature and fiction,mystery thriller and suspense,urban life, Firstborn Walker is a book worm who dreams of attending one of America's most competitive universities. When his best friend is shot through the forehead with a hollow tip bullet, his desire to flee the mean streets only intensifies. Unemployed, he turns to the only person who can help him secure the money he'll need to supplement his scholarship, a childhood friend known as "Drama." Drama is a charismatic, ultra-violent block hog, an East Oakland crack dealer who makes his living with a triple beam scale and an Uzi submachine gun. He assures Firstborn that he can earn the money he needs in just three months. So, Firstborn becomes a member of the Black Christmas Mob. Now the community college valedictorian must struggle to survive in a game laced with gold diggers, contract killers, hard hitters, marks, knocks, snitches and infiltrators; a world where witness tampering, blinding violence, safehouses, and a relentless cop named "the Hawk" become his new reality. Will Firstborn slip up and catch that triple life sentence? Will a vengeful gang leader called "Latin Caesar" blast a hot one through his forehead? Or will he escape the game and graduate from college? Straight Outta East Oakland tells his suspenseful story.
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Straight Outta East Oakland
EN NWISBN: 9780978913304 bzw. 0978913302, in Englisch, Soul Shaker Publishing Music and Works, neu.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, in-stock.
Needing to earn money to supplement his college scholarship, Firstborn Walker turns to an East Oakland crack dealer, his childhood friend now known as "Drama," and finds himself a member of the Black Christmas Mob, struggling to survive in a world of violence, witness tampering, and snitches.
Needing to earn money to supplement his college scholarship, Firstborn Walker turns to an East Oakland crack dealer, his childhood friend now known as "Drama," and finds himself a member of the Black Christmas Mob, struggling to survive in a world of violence, witness tampering, and snitches.
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