Daddy Cool
Dafina - Kensington · Print & ebook · August 26, 2014
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- Who it’s for
- A blunt, action-packed street thriller where family trouble disrupts a killer’s carefully kept cool.
- Genres
- Black Urban Fiction, Crime Fiction
- Published
- Dafina - Kensington, August 26, 2014
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A cold, calculating hired killer takes family matters into his own hands in this bold action-packed street thriller from Donald Goines, the OG master of urban lit . . . Nobody's better at taking out bodies than Larry Jackson, aka "Daddy Cool." Long as he's paid in full, he'll pull the trigger or stick a knife deep, whatever it takes to get the job done. No questions asked. Nobody's better. Nothing knocks him off his game-except his own family. Dead ass.
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He's got two stepsons wasting space and a wife he almost forgot about. But his daughter is another story. The only reason he do what he do is to keep her off the streets. Imagine how he feels about her new boyfriend being a two-bit pimp? It's time to TCB before everything he's worked for ends up in the gutter. No cap. Read more
When Work Hits Home
A blunt, action-packed street thriller where family trouble disrupts a killer’s carefully kept cool.
Come here for
- A hired killer’s hard-edged collision between work and family
- Street-crime tension with a darkly wry edge
Expect
- Violence, crime, and family stakes in close quarters
- A fast, unsentimental ride through a father’s fierce protectiveness
Where it sits
| Black Urban Fiction | 73% |
|---|---|
| Crime Fiction | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Urban Fiction
- Black Urban Fiction
- Authors
- Donald Goines, Terrence Kidd, Tantor Media
- Publisher
- Dafina - Kensington
- Published
- August 26, 2014
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Urban Fiction