This is my first read by Donald Goines. An excellent book. Well written story structure. I recommend. I will be reading more of his work."

It's OG Call from a OG. I started reading Donald Goians (DG) in the early 80's . This is not as much about Daddy Cool as it is about the whole 16 Donald Goines classics.
I have all 16 and have read all of them several times over the years. When I met young people who were not prone to read, I used these books to get them into reading. To date only 2 of Donald's books have been made into films. Of the two, only one was a quality production. "Never Die Alone" It was very good and had very good production value. Interestingly enough, Never Die Alone was my least favorite DG book. BTW it stars DMX in the lead role. Check it out on DVD. On the other hand, one of my favorite books Crime Partners by DG was a horribly made movie. It had Ice T, Snoop Dog and quite a cast of characters. Based on the low budget and the love both Snoop and Ice as well as others in the Hip Hop community have for DG, I have to assume that most of the " Name Actors " worked for scale or free. The main financing came from a person who can be seen on Season 1 of American Gangster on BET. His name eludes me but if you watch all of season 1 (and you should) it will come up
Anyway, back to DG's books. Donald had a talent that I have never seen in any other writer He was able to draw you into the book in the first two sentences and you were hooked like a fish on line. In many respects his writing could be described as " two dimensional " Yet as soon as you the reader arrives, the 3rd dimension is supplied and then the journey can begin.
As a young man (30 years ago )I sat in a restaurant on 127th on Malcolm X Blvd . It was there that I saw for myself a real life "Porky. " Who is Porky? He is one of the main characters in arguably DG's most powerful book "Dopefiend" he sat across from me when a women came in, who was obviously a heroin addict. The man sat there clearly unmoved by her pleas or tears. He then whispered something in her ear and I saw her head slump and it seemed as if I could see the last shred of her dignity leave her body like a ghost drifting up from a dead body. She shook her head yes and he sat there in no rush and finished his food. When he finished, she followed and it was at that point that I understood just how real the character Porky was and that there were and still are Porkies all over the country if not all over the world. To fully understand you would have to read Dopefiend. Hopefully people will buy all 16 books and NOT lend them out. When I bought my first DG book I think it was about 2 bucks tops. I looked at my current printing and it is 3.95 per book.
So for me after I recouped all of the books I never got back I vowed never to lend them out again.
The new price, 9.95 Still If I did not have the set I would over a period of time get the whole set.
One word of advice; four of the books need to be read in the following order: Crime Partners, Death List, Kenyatta Escape, and Kenyatta's Last Hit. Those 4 books should be viewed as a mini series.
Warring, Conspiracy Theory. I have always felt that the " Kenyatta Series " the aforementioned 4 books was why he was killed. Considering the subject matter of the 4 books and his un-dying popularity among black youth and the concern of the US govt. with politicized black youth It's not hard to see why those 4 books and their writer might be frowned on.

I unintentionally finished this book in 3 hours!!! I am a huge fan of Donald Goines and this book didnt let me down. His writing style is so vivid you can feel the tension between the characters! Awesome writer, amazing book.

this was a really good book. i read it in about a week.

Is the first word i can use to describe this book... i read pretty often so this book only took me about 3-4hrs to complete, David Goines writing technique is very descriptive it has turns and leaves u with your mouth open on the last page definety worth checking out i will definetly read more of his books