Death Wish
The Story of the Mafia

Name: Death Wish
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Iceberg Slim
ISBN: 9781483040288

Author: Iceberg Slim

Narrator: Cary Hite

Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Urban Audiobooks

Published: 09/01/2014

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

Synopsis

This is the story of Chicago's ruthless and tireless Mafia. The intensely real characters—the brutal overlords, their faithful lackeys, and their vengeful enemies—all collide in acts of loyalty, lust, greed, and death.Power hungry Don Jimmy Collucci is out to become the kingpin of Chicago's "Honored Society." His rise to the top can only be thwarted by one man—a man fueled by revenge who is hell-bent on bringing Collucci's infamous organization down: the "Black Warrior," Jessie Taylor. When ambitions collide, guns are drawn and blood is spilled. This gritty crime fiction tale is the original Mafia story.

About Iceberg Slim

Iceberg Slim (1918–1992), a.k.a. Robert Beck, was born in Chicago and initiated into the life of the pimp at age eighteen. He briefly attended the Tuskegee Institute but dropped out to return to the streets of the South Side, where he remained, pimping, until he was forty-two. After several stints in jail, culminating in a ten-month stay in Cook County, he decided to give up the life and turned to writing. With a family to feed, he folded his life into the pages of Pimp, which emerged as a definitive chronicle of street life. Slim was catapulted into the public eye as a new American hero, known for speaking the truth whether that truth was ugly, sexy, rude, or blunt. He published six more books based on his life and different aspects of the ghetto black, pimp community. Slim died at age seventy-three in 1992, one day before the Los Angeles riots.

About Cary Hite

Cary Hite has performed in several theaters across the country as a cast member in the longest-running African American play in history, The Diary of Black Men. He also appeared in Edward II, Fences, Macbeth, Good Boys, Side Effects May Vary, and the indie feature The City Is Mine. He has voiced several projects for AudibleKids, including Souls Look Back in Wonder, From Slave Ship to Freedom Road, and Papa, Do You Love Me?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julius

Fuck.yeah. Iceberg wasn't just that pimp Jay-Z references, he was also fucking sick with the pen. Here are some examples of what lies herein this fuckin rad-fest: -Voodoo priestess fingering herself so she can attract a Great Dane so she can slaughter him to read his entrails -interracial gang calle......more

Goodreads review by Amyr

iceberg slim is the originator of street novels. he took me back to the 70's for a first seat ride into chaos and mayhem. i was totally upset when it was over.......more

Goodreads review by Teresa

not super easy to get through - the names all just jumbled in my head, but by the final third of the book, I had it figured out. A 20th mid century story of the Chicago Italian and Black gangs. It didn't really land so hard with me. Didn't feel like it's a "must read". But if you are reading Iceberg......more

Goodreads review by MizZes

Whew! What a read I read when I was in my teens revisited I love the author.......more

Quotes

“One of the greatest black writers in American history.”

Ice-T

“Iceberg Slim was the godfather of a genre.”

K’wan, #1 bestselling author