American gangster
Subtitle: a novelization
By: by Max Allan Collins.
Contributors: Zaillian, Steven.
Publisher: Tor
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780765359018
Subjects: Heroin industry -- Fiction; Drug dealers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: After the death of his mentor, Frank Lucas rises to become the drug czar of Harlem--a wealthy, successful, powerful, and untouchable kingpin--until the arrival of Richie Roberts, an honest NYPD drug enforcement investigator determined to bring him down.
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."

Film tie-in.

"Based on the motion picture screenplay by Steven Zaillian."