The lawyer turned on the tape recorder, handed his client a cigarette, and lit it for him. Black drew hard, squinting as the smoke rushed into his lungs. "Where do you want to start?"the lawyer said, lighting a cigarette of his own. "I guess there’s only one place to start; at Broad and Erie." J...
I had the privilege to meet Solomon Jones at a book signing and chat with him. I told him how I enjoy his weekly column and his style of writing; got my book signed and went back to work. That's when it all began. I actually started reading the book while still at work. I read it on the way home....
Okay so I have read Pipe Dreams, The Bride and The Last Confession by this author so naturally want to read anything else he has written as I think he is a talented author that paints an environment that you can see, smell and live in..I know exactly where he is from because he tells about Philly...
It helped them to feel the high every time they took a hit, instead of smoking cap after cap and feeling nothing. But even with the beer, none of them felt the way they thought they should, because the first good hit of crack is often the last one. That’s one of the reasons that people get strung...
on a Wednesday, and a late autumn breeze swept in off the Schuylkill River as Detective Mike Coletti strode through the Fairgrounds Cemetery. As he passed between centuries-old crypts, Coletti thought of his young partner, Charlie Mann, whose crack marksmanship had saved Coletti from the serial k...