Crime Partners

Name: Crime Partners
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Donald Goines
ISBN: 9781705251560

Author: Donald Goines

Series: Kenyatta #1

Narrator: Mirron Willis

Unabridged: 4 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/14/2021

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Crime, African American & Black Fiction, Urban

Synopsis

Prison buddies Billy Good and Jackie Walker made time pulling small jobs here and there. Not a bad living if you liked scraping by. The thing to worry about was the next fix. Nothing else mattered. When Billy and Jackie fell in with Kenyatta, a ghetto lord ready to take back the streets, they thought they'd hit the big time. Dealing with drug pushers and crooked cops in the name of justice sure felt good, but in a world where "kindness was the sweetest con of all," every bullet fired echoed with the sound of payback.

About Donald Goines

Donald Goines was born in Detroit, Michigan. He joined the US Air Force instead of going into his family's dry cleaning business. Following his service, he entered into a life of drug addiction and crime. He received seven prison sentences, serving a total of over six years. While he was in prison, Goines wrote his first two novels, Dopefiend: The Story of a Black Junkie and Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp. Goines was shot to death in 1974.

Reviews

Goodreads review by CARLEEN on March 18, 2018

I first heard about Kenyatta almost 28 years ago. My second born son's grandmother was a Black Panther and it was her idea to give my son the middle name Kenyatta. Crime Partners is an action packed, fast read about the leader (Kenyatta) of a black militant organization and their attempt to clean up......more

Goodreads review by Jen on August 31, 2010

Good first-novel, with interesting characters and insight. Main complaint is that the ending is rather abrupt; the last 30 pages are a sample from another of the author's books, so I had thought the story was going to go on longer than it did. Without giving too much away, the main characters' plotl......more

Goodreads review by Mark on December 02, 2021

I thought it was a pretty good crime story with two thugs with compassion, with some very interesting turn of events going on.......more

Goodreads review by Mike on February 16, 2017

This does lack some of the more polished feel of more established writers but the raw energy of the this book is hard to deny.......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on June 24, 2021

unforgettable opening......more