

Pipe Dream
Author: Solomon Jones
Narrator: Kevin R. Free
Unabridged: 9 hr 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 12/21/2004
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Urban
Author: Solomon Jones
Narrator: Kevin R. Free
Unabridged: 9 hr 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 12/21/2004
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Urban
Solomon Jones is the Essence bestselling author of the critically acclaimed novels Payback, C.R.E.A.M., The Bridge, Ride or Die, and Pipe Dream, as well as the short-story collection Keeping Up with the Jones. He is a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and a spoken-word artist. He teaches creative writing at Temple University and is currently at work on his next novel.
I read this book a long time ago. And I read it b'c I was working in the same company and Solomon Jones. I found the book completely engrossing.. it didn't feel like a debut novel. I was glad I read it and then I lent it to a friend and never saw it again. I would love to re-read it now and see how......more
The book gets right into the action, giving only a short few pages describing Leroy and Black’s characters before going straight into the crime scene. We are presented “The House”, an abandoned home on Broad and Erie that as Black says “the news would refer to as a crack house”. In the house we find......more
Is this a genre withing a genre? The reporter who makes a novel out of his newspaper articles? Well, if this guy, Jones, is any indication, at least you end up with a well written story. It read easily, flowing even through subjects I had no interest in...but the whole thing was larger than life.......more