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Zelmont Raines has slid a long way since his ability to jook, to out maneuver his opponents on the field, made him a Super Bowl winning wide receiver, earning him lucrative endorsement deals and more than his share of female attention. But Zee hasn’t always been good at saying no, so a series of missteps involving drugs, a paternity suit or two, legal entanglements, shaky investments and recurring injuries have virtually sidelined his career.That is until Los Angeles gets a new pro franchise, th...
Quote: "I had butterflies with razor wings doing loop-the-loops in my stomach. I was psyched up & couldn't quite figure out why. The danger of them gangsters had me sharp, but that wasn't it. Motherfuckahs who thought with their guns were cowardly punks anyway. You had to respect a piece, but not the fool packing it. Guns gave 'em a false sense of security. That could be handled." "Inside the room the air wasn't moving. It was like all the quickie stranger sex had been soaked into the cinder blo...
Pretty solid urban noir that reminded me a lot of the film Against All Odds, perhaps because of the down-on-the-luck football protagonist teaming up with his once best friend who owns a nightclub, all of it taking place, for the most part, in L.A. There's a few plot glitches and some of the loose ends are wrapped up a little too briskly, but overall it's a quick and engaging and rough-around-the-edges hard-boiled read.
With everything going on in the world right now I have had trouble focusing on any kind of non-fiction. Sometimes you need a couple hundred pages of pulp. I'll probably forget 80% of this book within a week, but it passed the time!
This book doles out plenty of action, violence, sex and has a crazy, improbable plot. It’s a good read for fans of fast moving stories and larger than life characters, entertaining, but a little over the top for me.
I love Gary Phillips, and this is pure Gary. The language and plot are pure South Central L.A., the action is intense, the storyline hustles you along and it's plenty down and dirty. I don't even like football, at all. And loved this.
Feeling super cynical about the NFL, I decided to pick this tale up and was glad I did. The plot was implausible butthe dialogue was superb as was the action. I liked it enough that I might try another one by the author at some point.
Decent. A little hokey in spots, but worth a read. A crack smoking, speed taking football player on the outs gets caught up in a bad situation...
