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This streetwise novel chronicles the rise and fall of Lennie Jack, a twenty-six-year-old Vietnam veteran and mid-level heroin dealer itching to knock the powerful Willis McDaniel off his perch as the number-one drug kingpin. It plunges the reader into the subculture of addicts, dealers, and corrupt cops as Lennie Jack's bold and methodical challenge builds to a frightening climax.
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Vern E. Smith formerly served as the Atlanta Bureau chief and as a national correspondent for Newsweek. As a principal reporter with Newsweek's Special Projects Unit, he contributed to four cover stories later published as books. One of the stories, “Charlie Co.: What Vietnam Did to Us,” won the 1981 National Magazine Award for Single Issue Topic. He also served as a principal reporter and blogger for the 2004 Voices of Civil Rights oral history project, which is permanently housed in the Library of Congress. His work has also appeared in Emerge, the London Sunday Times, Ebony, GEO, the Crisis magazine, Merian magazine, and the History Channel Magazine.
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- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0809283069
- ISBN 13 9780809283064
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Book Description Loose Leaf. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.27. Seller Inventory # G0809283069I3N00
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. 1st edition. Chicago. 1974. Regnery. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0809283069. 287 pages. hardcover. Jacket designed by Gene Light & the New Studio. keywords: Black Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - THE JONES MEN of the title are a fascinating group of individuals inexorably entwined in a maze of deadly drugs, fast money, chrome-laden Cadillacs, and quick, violent death: the wholesalers, the dealers, the addicts, the narcotics police dogging their tracks, and the corrupted cops paid off to cover them. From the brutalizing backdrop of the big city slum to the palatial fireside of a rambling mansion deep in the hills of suburban Green Gate Estates, this gripping novel chronicles the rise and fall of Lennie Jack, a 26-year-old Vietnam veteran working long hours as a middle-level heroin dealer. In the clandestine world of jones, a casual slip of the tongue can be fatal. Using bits of overheard conversation, Lennie Jack engineers the hijacking of a large shipment of heroin bound for the drug factory of Willis McDaniel, a powerful west side wholesaler. Lennie Jack takes his small band of young, street-hardened hoods and hides in a shabby downtown motel. Then, in a series of chilling back-road meetings with a crafty underworld fix-it' man, he launches a methodical challenge to McDaniel's long rule, sweating all the while to stay a step ahead of the wholesaler's hired killers, as well as law enforcement officers of the narcotics squad. As scene after scene unfolds, a sense of impending terror feeds upon itself, building to a shattering climax as the outcome of the jones men's raw and terrifying life-style becomes frighteningly apparent. inventory #26107. Seller Inventory # z26107
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Chicago, IL: Henry Regnery (1974) 1st edition (No additional printings indicated). 8vo, 287 pp. Red cloth covers with silver titles are strong and straight. Pages are clean, no names or remainder markings, not Ex-Library. Unclipped DJ ($7.95) with light edgewear, closed tear on spine and a small piece of the surface lamination peeled from right front corner, protected by archival mylar jacket. Powerful novel about the drug sub-culture of America's ghettos. Book and DJ condition: VG. Books are shipped quickly and securely packed in a box. Seller Inventory # 1729
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Book Description Loose Leaf. Condition: Like New. Publisher: Henry Regnery, Chicago, 1974.First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE- dust-jacket. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves. Seller Inventory # SKU1032055
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good to Fine. First Edition. Regnery, Chicago, 1974. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. REd cloth boards with large, bright silver letters on spine. Black endsheets and 287 bright, white tightly bound pages. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good to Fine. Red illustrated gloss cover with large white letters. Original price inside front flap. Synopsis: *Newsweek* investigative correspondent's first novel, a thriller about the heroin trade set in an unnamed city that bears a close resemblance to Detroit. Scarce book published by a relatively small press. Seller Inventory # 8003002
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. pp: 287. FIRST EDITION. The author's first novel. Vern Emile Smith was a Newsweek correspondent in Detroit. He won the Detroit Press Club Foundation?s annual magazine writing award for a Newsweek article entitled ?Detroit?s Heroin Subculture.? This piece was his inspiration for the novel, The Jones Men. He is considered a pioneer as a Black correspondent who held several significant positions during his career. This is a near fine copy, still in unread condition, in a near fine dust jacket with light edge wear, and one short, closed tear. Seller Inventory # 007089
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing, with no additional printings listed on the copyright page. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 287 pages. The former Newsweek investigative reporter's deut novel. The rise and fall of 26 year-old Lonnie Jack, a Vietnam vet and mid-level heroin dealer determined to climb to number one. Some edgewear to the dj spine top and bottom, and touch on top front. Light touch of wear to dj corners.Clean red cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Clean endpapers. No interior writing or marks. Books corners sharp and solid spine. Foxing totop page edges. A very good dustjacket over a very good book. A scarce unread copy. Ships in well-padded box. Seller Inventory # 6159
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with very slight wear at the crown. *Newsweek* investigative correspondent's first novel, a thriller about the heroin trade set in an unnamed city that bears a close resemblance to Detroit. Scarce book published by a relatively small press. Seller Inventory # 3273
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