Numbers

Informationen zum Autor Dana Dane hosted Sirius Satellite Radio's Classic Hip-Hop Backspin Channel 43. He also tours the nation performing his classic rap tunes solo, as well as with other classic hip-hop artists. Numbers is his first novel. Klappentext Even as a young teenager! Dupree "Numbers Wallace had a keen mind for math. Whether he was getting good grades on his math tests or adding up the change he earned making grocery runs for his mom and neighbors! Numbers came out ahead more times than not. When Crispy Carl! the flyest pimp in the hood! gets wind of the young man's gift! the old cat takes him under his wing. Numbers quickly finds himself deep in his Brooklyn neighborhood's numbers racket! as well as dice and card games! gaining a legendary reputation for his hustle. But when his little sister gets cancer! Numbers is forced to bump up his game to the high-stakes world of drugs in order to pay for her treatment. Soon Numbers builds a strong crew and runs the streets as the baddest hustler in Brooklyn. But when his mistress and fellow crew member each take a bullet meant for him! his rivals start taking over his territory! and the Feds begin to close in! Numbers remembers the wise words of his old mentor Crispy Carl: A good hustler knows when to get out. Now that it's time to ditch the game! he must calculate an exit plan unlike any ever attempted before. . . The Beginning of the End Numbers was putting on an Academy Awardwinning performance, taking Jake through every emotion he could possibly think of: scared, confused, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, and victimized. Keyser Söze would have appreciated the level of game Numbers was laying down. Eleven hours had passed since he'd been taken into custody, six of them under tough interrogation. Although the agents didn't know any more now than they did when they picked him up, Numbers knew that he was far from out of the fire. Crispy Carl had once told him, When you stand in the flames, never let them see you sweat. And Numbers maintained his composure. The holding room was painted a dull mint green. It was cruel and unusual punishment just to have to look at it for too long. The only furnishings were four metal chairs and a rectangular table. A DEA agent sat on one side of the table with two empty chairs beside him, while Numbers sat on the opposite side. The fluorescent lights overhead seemed to beam only on him. Directly ahead of Numbers was a mirror five feet wide by three feet high. It was obvious that there were agents on the other side listening and watching everything that was said or done in the room. Every so often the agent who was with Numbers would turn around and act as if he was looking at himself, asking the same question again and again. This was his way of letting his superiors know he was getting nowhere fast. So where are the drugs and money? Agent Smith asked for what seemed like the thousandth time. Smith had been at the agency for only a couple of years, but his supervisor liked to use him when they interrogated black suspects. They believed another black male could lure the black perps into a false sense of security and thus trick them into incriminating themselves. Agent Smith fancied himself a good dresser. Today he was wearing a charcoal-gray suit with a light gray shirt and solid black tie. His top lip sported a well-trimmed pencil-thin mustache. Don't make it worse for yourself than it already is, he said, as if he really cared. If you play ball, we can knock some time off your sentence. Numbers thought it was funny how the agent spoke to him as if they could have been friends under different circumstances. But if he thinks that I'm gonna sit here and implicate myself, this nigger must be the one smoking hot monkey ass through a stem. I don't know how many ways I can tell you this, man, but I ain't done nothing. Y'all the ones that haul...

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Dana Dane hosted Sirius Satellite Radio’s Classic Hip-Hop Backspin Channel 43. He also tours the nation performing his classic rap tunes solo, as well as with other classic hip-hop artists. Numbers is his first novel.

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Even as a young teenager, Dupree "Numbers” Wallace had a keen mind for math. Whether he was getting good grades on his math tests or adding up the change he earned making grocery runs for his mom and neighbors, Numbers came out ahead more times than not.

When Crispy Carl, the flyest pimp in the hood, gets wind of the young man's gift, the old cat takes him under his wing. Numbers quickly finds himself deep in his Brooklyn neighborhood's numbers racket, as well as dice and card games, gaining a legendary reputation for his hustle. But when his little sister gets cancer, Numbers is forced to bump up his game to the high-stakes world of drugs in order to pay for her treatment.

Soon Numbers builds a strong crew and runs the streets as the baddest hustler in Brooklyn. But when his mistress and fellow crew member each take a bullet meant for him, his rivals start taking over his territory, and the Feds begin to close in, Numbers remembers the wise words of his old mentor Crispy Carl: A good hustler knows when to get out. Now that it's time to ditch the game, he must calculate an exit plan unlike any ever attempted before. . .