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  • Street Lit & True Crime

Street Lit & True Crime

Gorilla Convict has been interviewing and writing about street lit authors from the jump. Check out these exclusive interviews with your favortie urban fiction authors and true crime writers who pen stories on American gangsters.

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  • June 15, 2014
Charles “Lucky” Luciano is one of the most researched, discussed and dissected American mobsters of all time. His name has become synonymous with ...
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  • April 13, 2014
I’m no God damn rat! I’m a player. I’m a pirate. I’m a hedonist; and one hell of good smuggler, but I’m no rat! This is the true story of th ...
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  • March 2, 2014
By David Amoruso (http://gangstersinc.ning.com Gangsters Inc.) Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been captured by U.S. and ...
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  • January 19, 2014
The way Sheeran saw it, the Mob only had two choices: murder Hoffa or put him in the plot. By doing that, they got a chance to make sure they could t ...
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  • January 6, 2014
The rags-to-riches tale of the Chambers brothers, seven siblings who migrated to the Motor City from less than meager beginnings in the Deep South, pl ...
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  • November 17, 2013
Escobar on morgue slab (3)In July 1993, Drug lord Pablo Escobar sneaked away into the night, even though 500 soldiers surrounded the prison. He first ...
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  • November 10, 2013
If Butch Jones was the quintessential Motor City drug kingpin of the early 1980s, Demetrius Holloway held that title for the latter half of the decade ...
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  • September 23, 2013
Aurelio Cano Flores started out as a cop, turned into a drug lord, and now sits in an American prison where he will spend over three decades behind ba ...
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  • September 15, 2013
The author Dre hails from the City of Chester, Pennsylvania. A former drug dealer turned creative writer. At the age of 23 Dre was arrested and sent t ...
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  • September 8, 2013
Prisoner of Dreams: Confessions of a Harlem Drug Dealer is the true story of Rick Talley, a black man who returned from Vietnam with a dream that he ...
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  • August 4, 2013
He is being accused of ordering the kidnapping and murder of 265 people, men and women. Killing was a hobby of his, it seemed. His favorite technique ...
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  • July 28, 2013
George Hassett’s new book, Gangsters of Boston is a well written and researched volume that goes in-depth to all things criminal in Boston. The city ...