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Again, based on personal experience! When Donald Goines was discharged from the Air Force, he was addicted to heroin. To support his habit he staged the robbery of a local numbers house.And from that experience came Eldorado Red! It’s the vicious story of the crooks who get richer with the dollars of the ghetto poor. He’s got it knocked, new cars, mellow women, and plenty of money. Then he learns the treachery at the feet of his own son!

Donald Goines, savagely unalived at the age of 39 , was the undisputed master of the Black Experience novel. He lived by the code of the streets and exposed in each of his 16 books (some written under the pseudonym #AlCClark) the rage, frustration, and torment spinning through the inner city maze. Each of the stories, classics in the Black Experiencegenre, were drawn from reality as Donald Goines poured out the anger, guilt and pain of a Black Man in America.

America’s # 1 Best Selling Black Author…

“Almost single-handedly, Goines established the conventions and the popular momentum for a new fictional genre, which could be called Ghetto Realism.”
Professor Greg Goode
University Of Rochester

“Donald Goines is a master at depicting street life in its rawest form.”
JaQuavis Coleman, New York Times Best Selling Author

“Goines is the most iconic voice in urban fiction”
Ashley Antoinette, New York Times Best Selling Author

“Goines’ books are classics”
Carl Weber, founder of Urban Books and #NewYorkTimesBestSellingAuthor

“All those [other Black] writers, no matter how well they dealt with Black experience, appealed largely to an educated, middle-class, largely White readership. They brought news of one place to the residents of another. Goines’ novels, on the other hand, are written from Ground Zero. They are almost unbearable. It is not the educated voice of a writer who has, so to speak, risen above his background, it is the voice of the ghetto itself.”
Michael Covino, The Village Voice

International Raves for Donald Goines…

“A flashing talent straight from the streets of the lost.”
L’Expres

“After #ChesterHimes, the “Serie Norie” could not overlook Donald Goines, the most interesting Black crime writer in many years. Goines writes with guns ‘n blood.”
La Republique du Centre

“What is great about Goines is that you feel you’ve become more intelligent once you have read the stories of pain and grief. His stories have almost have an ethnographic value”
La Liberte de I’est

“…dives into the hellish world of the ghettodear to Chester Himes, minus the humor. Policemen shoot before asking questions. Fear and hatred can be read on all faces.”
La Croix

More Raves…
“Machiavelli was my tutor, Donald Goines is my father figure.”
Tupac Shakur

“A timeless writer, Donald Goines laid the foundation for all who came after.”
Wahida Clark, #NewYorkTimesBestSellingAuthor

“[Goines] lived by the code of the streets and his books vividly recreated the jungle and its predators.”
New Jersey Voice

“The greatest ghetto writer that ever lived.”
Holloway House

“I’ve read every one of Donald Goines’ books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped.”
DMX, Multi Platinum Rapper, Actor. “David” on the #ErnestDickerson directed motion picture “Never Die Alone”

“Writing was his salvation, but the line separating his life from his novels grew thinner and thinner.”
Detroit Free Press

Donald Goines’ Books In Order of Publication

Dopefiend (1971) 📺
Whoreson (1972) 📺
Black Gangster (1972) 📺
Street Players (1973)
White Man’s Justice, Black Man’s Grief (1973)
Black Girl Lost (1974) 📺
Eldorado Red (1974) 📺
Swamp Man (1974)
Never Die Alone (1974) 📺
Cry Revenge (1974) Written as Al C. Clark.
Daddy Cool (1974) 📺
Crime Partners (1974) Witten as Al C. Clark 📺
Death List (1974) Written as Al C. Clark 📺
Kenyatta’s Escape (1975) Written as Al C. Clark 📺
Inner City Hoodlum (1975) 📺

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