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Renay Jackson is a former rapper and the self-proclaimed godfather of urban lit. The author of five previous books in this series—Oaktown Devil, Shakey’s Loose, Turf War, Peanut’s Revenge, and Crack City—he received the prestigious Chester Himes Black Mystery Writer Award in 2002. He lives in Oakland, CA.
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Crack City
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2006
Price: $14.95
Sex, violence, and drugs reign supreme in this engrossing depiction of an urban underworld. Lorraine has it all: a devoted husband, a comfortable home, a secure job, and a hot body. When she and her coworker Allison go out to lunch one day, they bump into Lorraine’s cousin, Dirty Don, and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2006
Price: $14.95
Sex, violence, and drugs reign supreme in this engrossing depiction of an urban underworld. Lorraine has it all: a devoted husband, a comfortable home, a secure job, and a hot body. When she and her coworker Allison go out to lunch one day, they bump into Lorraine’s cousin, Dirty Don, and... Read more >
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Sweetpea's Secret
Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2008
Price: $14.95
Renay Jackson’s previous books in this series introduced the curious character of Sweetpea, who’s not exactly what he seems. By day he’s Horace Boudreaux, mortgage broker and sometime playboy who likes nothing better than getting down with his girlfriend Harriette. Other times, he’s one of Oaktown’s more successful hitmen. He doesn’t... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2008
Price: $14.95
Renay Jackson’s previous books in this series introduced the curious character of Sweetpea, who’s not exactly what he seems. By day he’s Horace Boudreaux, mortgage broker and sometime playboy who likes nothing better than getting down with his girlfriend Harriette. Other times, he’s one of Oaktown’s more successful hitmen. He doesn’t... Read more >
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Peanut's Revenge
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 18, 2006
Price: $13.95
A blistering follow-up to Turf War, Peanut's Revenge opens with the release of criminal kingpin Big Ed Tatum from jail after the only witness to his crime is murdered. What's his first task as a free man? To track down his rival Silky, who soon turns up dead. Silky's woman, Melody... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 18, 2006
Price: $13.95
A blistering follow-up to Turf War, Peanut's Revenge opens with the release of criminal kingpin Big Ed Tatum from jail after the only witness to his crime is murdered. What's his first task as a free man? To track down his rival Silky, who soon turns up dead. Silky's woman, Melody... Read more >
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Turf War
Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
On Sale: January 18, 2005
Price: $13.95
Big Ed is in prison for murder. As gang leaders grapple for dominance in the power vacuum he's left behind, Big Ed plots his comeback through the murder of the only person who saw his crime. Though she's in the witness protection program, Vanessa is still vulnerable to Big Ed's extended... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
On Sale: January 18, 2005
Price: $13.95
Big Ed is in prison for murder. As gang leaders grapple for dominance in the power vacuum he's left behind, Big Ed plots his comeback through the murder of the only person who saw his crime. Though she's in the witness protection program, Vanessa is still vulnerable to Big Ed's extended... Read more >
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Oaktown Devil
Format: Trade Paperback, 218 pages
On Sale: July 23, 2004
Price: $14.95
On the streets, crime and violence are part of the daily routine, and revenge has taken the place of stickball. Staying straight isn't easy, especially when one's family is mixed up in gang wars and drug dealing. When Rainbow Jordan's brother Stoney is murdered, he's determined to find the killer—both to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 218 pages
On Sale: July 23, 2004
Price: $14.95
On the streets, crime and violence are part of the daily routine, and revenge has taken the place of stickball. Staying straight isn't easy, especially when one's family is mixed up in gang wars and drug dealing. When Rainbow Jordan's brother Stoney is murdered, he's determined to find the killer—both to... Read more >
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Shakey's Loose
Format: Trade Paperback, 266 pages
On Sale: October 15, 2004
Price: $13.95
In this blistering follow-up to Oaktown Devil, ambitious new players vie to control the complex and deadly Oakland drug scene. Big Ed takes over the East Side Empire. Shakey Jones, Buckey's brother, is released from prison and his sole goal is to avenge the deaths of Buckey and his woman, Violet—deaths... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 266 pages
On Sale: October 15, 2004
Price: $13.95
In this blistering follow-up to Oaktown Devil, ambitious new players vie to control the complex and deadly Oakland drug scene. Big Ed takes over the East Side Empire. Shakey Jones, Buckey's brother, is released from prison and his sole goal is to avenge the deaths of Buckey and his woman, Violet—deaths... Read more >
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