Hoodlum
A Novel
St. Martin's Press · Print & ebook · August 1, 2005
He set out to be the good son, but the streets had a different plan.
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- Who it’s for
- A college basketball star’s future collides with family legacy and the brutal demands of the streets.
- Themes
- Family loyalty and obligation, Power and crime, Personal ambition
- Pacing
- Fast
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He set out to be the good son, but the streets had a different plan. Born to one of the city's most notorious crime families, Shai Clark has always managed to be a good kid. A college hoops star, Shai shunned the world that his father had created and focused on his dreams of going pro. Tommy, Shai's trigger-happy older brother, is next in line for the throne and rules under his father through brute force. But Poppa has bigger plans for Shai.
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The situation soon turns ugly when Poppa is murdered and Tommy is removed from the equation. Suddenly Shai finds himself at the head of his father's empire and the streets are thrown into chaos. It is then that he must decide whether to pursue his own dreams or put his father's affairs in order. Unable to sit idly by while the Clarks' underworld empire is pillaged, Shai takes up his father's mantle and brings his game to the streets. He quickly learns that there are two sides to every coin, and the streets hold no mercy for the weak. Hoodlum chronicles three generations of Trinidadian immigrants and their rise to power in the New York City heroin trade. A K'wan classic.
Dreams and Power
A college basketball star’s future collides with family legacy and the brutal demands of the streets.
Come here for
- A crime-family saga spanning three generations of Trinidadian immigrants
- The tension between personal ambition and inherited power
Expect
- A New York underworld shaped by family ties and shifting loyalties
- A hard-edged story with little mercy for the weak
Where it sits
| Urban Fiction | 67% |
|---|---|
| Black Urban Fiction | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Urban Fiction
- Black Urban Fiction
- Authors
- K'wan
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Published
- August 1, 2005
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Family loyalty and obligation · Power and crime · Personal ambition
- Reading lane
- Urban Fiction