The Cook Up, D. Watkins
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The Cook Up
A Crack Rock Memoir

Author: D. Watkins

Narrator: D. Watkins

Unabridged: 5 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Published: 05/03/2016


Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEO MAGAZINE BEST SUMMER BOOKTold by the man who lived it, The Cook Up is a riveting look inside the Baltimore drug trade as portrayed in the hit HBO series, The Wire. The smartest kid on his block in East Baltimore, D. was certain he would escape the life of drugs, decadence, and violence that had surrounded him since birth. But when his brother Devin is shot-only days after D. receives notice that he's been accepted into Georgetown University-the plans for his life are exploded, and he takes up the mantel of his brother's crack empire. D. succeeds in cultivating the family business, but when he meets a woman unlike any he's known before, his priorities are once more put into question. Equally terrifying and hilarious, inspiring and heartbreaking, D.'s story offers a rare glimpse into the mentality of a person who has escaped many hells.

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