America's #1 bestselling black author pens the shocking expose of a drug dealer's rise from the streets to king of the cocains mountain. Because Donald Goines always writes from his true-life experiences of the streets and the code of the ghetto, his fiction is lent a certain gritty rea- lity that not many can recreate. Which explains why it has been adapted into a major film by Fox Searchlight Pictures, produced by and starring rap artist-turned-actor DMX. This Los Angeles street saga will attract urban audiences and increase the readership thirsty for the literary original.