Original Gangster - My Life as NYC's Biggest Baddest Drugs Baron

Informationen zum Autor Frank Lucas was born in 1930 in La Grange, North Carolina and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. Lucas is a former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who was based in Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was particularly known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in Southeast Asia. He is the subject of the 2007 film American Gangster . Lucas has been jailed twice, and was most recently released in 1991. Klappentext Criminals are not born in a vacuum, and Frank Lucas is no exception. At the age of six he watched his cousin die in a lynching and in that moment of Southern brutality, Frank Lucas, notorious gangster, billion-dollar-heroin importer was born. This title tells the story of this most notorious black gangster to ever rule the streets of New York. Zusammenfassung Criminals are not born in a vacuum, and Frank Lucas is no exception. At the age of six he watched his cousin die in a lynching and in that moment of Southern brutality, Frank Lucas, notorious gangster, billion-dollar-heroin importer was born. This title tells the story of this most notorious black gangster to ever rule the streets of New York.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Lucas
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 09.02.2012
• EAN: 9780091928674
• ISBN: 978-0-09-192867-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; True Crime, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws, TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime, Organized crime, Drugs trade / drug trafficking