Night Train to Sugar Hill
Night Train to Sugar Hill 1980s Los Angeles. Innocent and damned alike fall victim to the artificial allure of the drug -- a teenager accidentally overdoses, junkies smoke crack laced with cyanide, a…
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Night Train to Sugar Hill
1980s Los Angeles. Innocent and damned alike fall victim to the artificial allure of the drug -- a teenager accidentally overdoses, junkies smoke crack laced with cyanide, a gang member is shot down in the streets, a mother is murdered by her alcoholic husband, and a major drug dealer is killed by an ordinary man fed up with the drug game.Set on L.A.'s meanest, toughest streets and never published until now, Night Train to Sugar Hill is one of Iceberg Slim's two final novels. The crack epidemic has hit hard.
Baptiste O'Leary, an old ex-con who is Slim's alter ego, calls for political action against the militarized police raiding black communities and greater compassion for those caught in the It is his most personal work of political fiction, an epic tragedy where no one escapes from the deadly orbit of the drug crisis and the police repression that follows.