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Welcome to the underworld of North Philadelphia. Immerse yourself in a world of hustlers, conspiring stick-up kids, shady young women, illegal stash-houses and corrupt cops.
Where killers cross paths and snitches die. Follow the lives of two young coke-dealers; parallel to the lives of two reckless stick-up artists as they strive to succeed in an unforgiving world of drug-dealers, gun-runners and cutthroats.
They lead an illegal life in North Philadelphia. They may or may not regret the lives that they lead; but you definitely will not regret reading the book, ‘Illegal Life: A North Philly Story.’
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North Philadelphia is a place where drugs, criminals, and conspiracies thrive. This world of hustlers, shady young women, stick-up kids, bad cops who shoot first and ask questions later, and young black men are trying to make it big time as dope dealers. It’s an unforgiving environment for all involved, with no one coming out on top.
A world that can kill you if your words or actions imperil anyone involved – even just by association – for they never know who might be on side with whom as long as there’s money changing hands somewhere along the way!
The book deals in following two parallel stories of two young black coke dealers on the one hand and two callous stick-up artists on the other as they dream of money, success, and women, while dodging bullets, day-light murders, jail-times, and schemes.
They are hustlers from the ‘hood. With bullets flyin’ all around them and death in every corner, it seems that this might be their final call, but what choice do they have in their illegal lives?
The book is available in eBook and softcover formats. Another option includes purchasing the urban fiction with the second installment in the series. Both these felony books can be bought as a paperback bundle.
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Illegal Life_ A North Philly Story – Reloaded (Preview) – J. Cerrone
Audra Russell –
Wow. This book grabbed hold of me from the first page and didn’t turn me loose until the last. Illegal Life: A North Philly Story is a street lit novel that tells the dangers of being a drug dealer in heartbreaking detail. It doesn’t glamorize the money aspect at all. It shows that yes, you can make money selling drugs, but that money comes with its own very high price tag that always — ALWAYS — ends one of two ways: jail or death.
The author also magnificently paints the grim picture of how young black men get trapped into the vicious cycle of dealing, how the lifestyle always has you looking over your shoulder, and how living under that kind of pressure causes paranoia and mistrust that eat at the fabric of your relationships. It shows how getting into that life is a blinding trap that convinces many young men to throw away their talent and choose short-term money over delayed gratification.
It shows how young boys who don’t have good, strong male role models fall prey to shady characters who entice them into the game by solving their immediate problems with a wad of cash, and the young boys, with the weight of being the man of the house and providing for their families on their teenage shoulders, get suckered into a game they cannot possibly win.
It shows how mothers left to raise children on their own, with bills piling sky high, and minimum wage jobs that don’t even begin to make ends meet, while not condoning their sons behaviors, accept it because it helps them to survive.
This book is gritty and heartfelt and shows how Will, Pop, Cannon, CeCe, Stacy, Veronica and Jasiel and Jose try to navigate street life in North Philly. All of them teenagers and all of them having to make impossible choices with outcomes that propagate generational cycles of poverty and crime.
A very moving book that pleads with anyone who may be facing similar situations to see that choosing an illegal life never has a good outcome.
I haven’t read a book this hard-hitting and real since I read the late Donald Goines many years ago. J. Cerrone definitely gives Goines a run for his money. In fact, I may go back and re-read Goines to do a side-by-side comparison.
This book is definitely worth your time. I read it in one sitting!