Cocaine Chronicles

Gary Phillips

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"The best stories in The Cocaine Chronicles . . . are equal to the best fiction being written today." --New York Journal of Books

"The perfect stocking stuffer for your uncle in AA." --New York Observer

A selection of the Akashic Drug Chronicles Series.

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 Chronicles contains tough tales by a cross-section of today's most thought-provoking writers.

Stories by Susan Straight, Lee Child, Ken Bruen, Laura Lippman, Nina Revoyr, Jerry Stahl, 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.

Book Details

Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Publish Date: Nov 29th, 2011
Pages: 288
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.20in - 0.80in - 0.60lb
EAN: 9781617750298
Categories: • Anthologies (multiple authors)• Mystery & Detective - Collections & Anthologies• Literary

About the Author

Phillips, Gary: - GARY PHILLIPS has published novels, comics, and short stories, and edited numerous anthologies. Violent Spring, first published in 1994, was named one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles. Culprits, a linked anthology he coedited, has been optioned as a British miniseries, and he was a staff writer on FX's Snowfall about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central, where he grew up. He is the editor of Orange County Noir and the coeditor of The Cocaine Chronicles. He has contributed stories to Dublin Noir, Los Angeles Noir, Phoenix Noir, and The Heroin Chronicles. South Central Noir is his latest anthology.

Praise for this book

While The Cocaine Chronicles is a hard, honest, uncompromising read and might not be for the faint of heart, the stories it tells all have to do with a drug that's been around for a while and is not going anywhere. Also, some stories offer a bit of hope, which shine through as invitations to never give up.-- "Austin Post"

The Cocaine Chronicles is a pure, jangled hit of urban, gritty, and raw noir. Caution: These stories are addicting.

--Harlan Coben, award-winning author of Just One Look