Title: Crime Partners
First published: June 1974
Description: Goines’ powerful first novel lays bare the bloody, brutal world of crime in the black ghetto, where, as Goines put it, “kindness was the sweetest con of all.” Here is the gutsy and often shocking world of Billy and Jackie, prison buddies on the streets and hot on the trigger.
Subjects: Fiction, African Americans, African American criminals, Fiction, general, Fiction, action & adventure
Places: Michigan, Detroit (Mich.), Detroit