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The Cocaine Chronicles

by Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon · 2005

Akashic Drug Chronicles series

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Nothing to snort at, this ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Phillips and Tervalon. Cocaine, that most troubling and fascinating of substances, is the subject, the subtext, the whys and whereofs in The Cocaine Chronicles, a collection of original short stories that are funny and harrowing, sad and scary, but at all times riveting. The Cocaine Chroniclescontains tough tales by a cross-section of today's most thought-provoking writers.

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Contributors:Susan Straight, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Jerry Stahl, Nina Revoyr, Bill Moody, Emory Holmes II, James Brown, Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon, Kerry E. West, Donnell Alexander, Deborah Vankin, Robert Ward, Manuel Ramos, and Detrice Jones.

Genre
mysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thiscrimecrimeMore like thisLess of this
Themes
addictionaddictionMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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