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The Cocaine Chronicles

Edited by: Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon

The best fiction anthology of cocaine-themed tales to blow through in years, featuring all-new stories from Susan Straight, Lee Child, Jerry Stahl, Ken Bruen, Laura Lippman, Bill Moody, Nina Revoyr, and many more.

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What people are saying…

“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

“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

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Touched By Death
“Ten Keys” by Lee Child
“The Crack Cocaine Diet” by Laura Lippman
“White Irish” by Ken Bruen
“Beneficent Diversions from the Crackdkins Diet” by Donnell Alexander

Part II: Fiending
“Poinciana” by Susan Straight
“The Screenwriter” by James Brown
“Twilight of the Stooges” by Jerry Stahl
“Chemistry” by Robert Ward

Part III: The Corruption
“Shame” by Kerry E. West
“Viki, Flash, and the Pied-Piper of Shoebies” by Deborah Vankin
“Golden Pacific” by Nina Revoyr
“Sentimental Value” by Manuel Ramos
“Just Surviving Another Day” by Detrice Jones

Part IV: Gangsters & Monsters
“A.K.A. Moises Rockafella” by Emory Holmes II
“Camaro Blue” by Bill Moody
“Serving Monster” by Jervey Tervalon
“Disco Zombies” by Gary Phillips