Shetanis Sister, Justin Gifford
Shetanis Sister, Justin Gifford
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Shetani's Sister

Author: Justin Gifford, Iceberg Slim

Narrator: Korey Jackson

Unabridged: 7 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/25/2015


Synopsis

From the multi-million copy master of vernacular black literature and pioneeer of hip hop culture, a masterpiece of crime fiction set in Los Angeles' meanest, toughest streets. Here is the newly discovered novel by Iceberg Slim, the creator and undisputed master of African-American "street literature," a man who profoundly influenced hip hop and rap culture and probably has sold more books than any other black American author of the twentieth century (not that he saw the royalties from those sales). In many ways Iceberg Slim's most mature fictional work, Shetani's Sister relates, in taut, evocative vernacular torn straight from the street corner, the deadly duel between two complex anitheroes: Sergeant Russell Rucker, an LAPD vice detective attempting to clean up street prostitution and police corruption, and Shetani (Swahili for Satan), a veteran master pimp who controls his stable of whores with violence and daily doses of heroin.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott

The list of Great Black American Crime writers is a long and honored one, and it’s getting longer, especially with a growing number of female black crime writers. Chester Himes, Robert Beck, Walter Mosley, SA Cosby, and Rachel Howzell Hall are just a few of the well-known black authors you will find......more

Goodreads review by Don

(3) Wow, what a storyteller! This is old school, down in the dirt, blacksploitation stuff. Those old movies should have had Iceberg Slim as their screenwriter because this one is just plain wild and wooly. A really crazy bad guy running a stable of drug addicted girls gets into it with his own head......more

Read full review HERE Have you ever read a book that tests your limits? Like…. this book is some heavy s**t! Seriously! It’s centered around murder, prostitution, drugs, adultery, corruptness, and anything else you may want to tack on. Trust me, you will find something of everything in this book. I w......more

My first read by the legendary IceBerg Slim. The foreword was also good b/c I had no clue about Mr.Slim's back story. From the first page I knew this book was going to be a page - turner. I really found no likeable characters. As an alpha woman myself I felt angry seeing how these women were so weak......more

Iceberg Slim's writing just pulls you into this taboo world. There's something about the rawness of it all that hooks the readers. I enjoyed reading this story very much and all the twists and turns kept me on my toes. The pace is amazing down to the very end where you can't help but groan in frustr......more