Book
Death wish : a story of the Mafia / Iceberg Slim.
Chronicles the clash between Jimmy Collucci, an ambitious member of Chicago's Mafia, and Jessie Taylor, an African American driven by revenge and hatred to destroy Collucci's infamous organization.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781936399178 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1936399172 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 243 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st trade pbk. ed.
- Publisher: [United States] : Cash Money Content, c2013.
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Mafia > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Urban fiction. |
Iceberg Slim, aka Robert Beck, was born in Chicago in 1918 and initiated into the life of the pimp at age eighteen. He briefly attended the Tuskegee Institute but dropped out to return to the streets of the South Side, where he remained, pimping until he was forty-two. After several stints in jail, culminating in a ten month stay in Cook County, he decided to give up the life and turned to writing. With a family to feed, Slim folded his life into the pages of seven books based on his life; The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim was the second autobiographical account Slim wrote. Slim died at age 73 in 1992; one day before the Los Angeles riots.