DEALER: Portrait of a Cocaine Merchant

by Richard Woodley ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 25, 1971

Not even snorting 150 dollars of coke a day blunts the hard nose of his dealer, Jimmy, whose story is filtered through reporter Woodley largely on his own terms and in his limited idiom. He's tough and fast and arrogant and, believe it or not, likable. He intends to get it together ($100,000) in about six months which keep stretching out -- one of his men might be killed, another busted. Essentially he's a free-lancer and something of a philosopher: ""Some days you lose all."" You'll learn a good deal about the business; about cocaine itself (its deleterious effects have not been established; good coke has 'a numb' and you can also call it 'Baby'); and about the stash in the respectable neighborhood where Jimmy keeps it; etc. etc. In his business, as Jimmy says, you've got ""to have the flash"" or style. It comes across here.

Pub Date: Oct. 25, 1971

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1971

Categories: NONFICTION