Kenyatta Series

For the first time in more than a decade, Kenyatta’s Last Hist is now back in print, along with the previous titles in the series, with a whole new look to attract new readers as well as long-time fans of the legendary godfather of urban lit.

The OG godfather of urban lit lays it all on the line with the epic, action-packed conclusion to Kenyatta’s quest to reclaim his streets . . .


For Kenyatta, the bullet-proof street legend himself, the take-no-prisoners war is far from over. With new recruits bolstering his hardened army, he’s ready to take down the drug pushers and their relentless, spreading infestation. This time the battle is moving out of the streets and heading west, where he faces off with his arch enemy in a brutal showdown in Vegas, high atop a glittering hotel. One bullet, one hit, one survivor—winner takes all . . .

Donald Goines, “the godfather of black pulp fiction” (Salon.com) and “one of hip hop’s greatest inspirations” (The Source Magazine), is among the most influential and revered urban authors of all time.  Now the third book in his groundbreaking Kenyatta series is reissued and repackaged with a dynamic new look to captivate a new generation of crime fiction readers…

Donald Goines never lets up with this raw portrayal of one man’s fight to rid the streets of drugs and crooked cops . . .

If you want to rule the streets, you can’t get bum rushed—a stone-cold fact Kenyatta’s learned through brutal firsthand experience. He’s got the guns and the soldiers, a street-smart army raised on desperation and injustice and ready to fight the power by any means necessary. But the cops have located Kenyatta’s hideout—and they’re coming in armed to the teeth. Kenyatta is not giving up without a fight. The time is now: man up, go to war, put your life on the line. Tsk.

Donald Goines continues the gripping, gritty story of crime in the black ghetto begun in Crime Partners. 

They’re all back for blood: Kenyatta, the ganglord with an army of brothers to deal deadly with crooked cops and dope dealers; Benson and Ryan, a black and white detective team, desperate in their fight to stop the black crime wave. It’s doomsday when Kenyatta joins them in a war against a secret list of drug pushers.
 
“In his five-year literary career, Donald Goines provided perhaps the most sustained, multifaceted, realistic fiction picture ever created by one author of the lives, choices, and frustrations of the underworld ghetto blacks. Almost single-handedly, Goines established the conventions and the popular momentum for a new fictional genre, which could be called ghetto realism.”  —Greg Goode, University of Rochester

Donald Goines, one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, has influenced many of today’s urban writers with his gritty, realistic look at the streets. For the first time in years, his classic Crime Partners is now repackaged and reissued in trade with a whole new look to attract new readers, as well as long-time fans of the legend himself.

The godfather of urban lit, Donald Goines captures the raw, uncensored reality of life on the streets with a voice that has shaped hip hop culture.

Prison buddies Billy Good and Jackie Walker made time pulling small jobs here and there. Not a bad living if you liked scraping by. The thing to worry about was the next fix. Nothing else mattered. When Billy and Jackie fell in with Kenyatta, a ghetto lord ready to take back the streets, they thought they’d hit the big time. Dealing with drug pushers and crooked cops in the name of justice sure felt good, but in a world where “kindness was the sweetest con of all,” every bullet fired echoed with the sound of payback.