Dell
August 1999
On Sale: August 10, 1999
Featuring: Marcus Clay; Dimitri Karras
384 pages ISBN: 044023493X EAN: 9780440234937 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
It's March madness. And the college boys are playing
basketball on TV. But on the streets of D.C., the homeboys
are dealing, dissing, dying. From behind plate glass, with
an 80s backbeat pounding in his brain, Marcus Clay watches
it all happen, and prays that he can make a go with his
downtown record store. Then a car comes careening down U
Street. And what Marcus sees next will plunge him into the
middle of a war.
A drug runner is decapitated in the crash. A bystander—a
white boy desperate to buy a woman's love—snatches a bag of
cash from the wreck. And a prince of crime wants it back. . . .
For Marcus's buddy, Dimitri Karras, the mayhem is a chance
to make a score. For a pair of dirty cops it's a chance to
get free. And for dozens of lives swept up into the
maelstrom, it's just another springtime in America's
capital, where the game is played for keeps . . .