City of Broken Dreams

About the Book

Hanif “Neef ” Shabazz and Damion “Dame Raw” Jackson did there 10 year stretch of hard time inside infamous New York Prisons. Now they back on the street, cruising around N.Y in foreign cars: Neef drives a black “drop top” Porsche Carrera and Damion drives a green CL 600 Mercedes Benz. On the wrong side of the law – major players in the drug game – seemingly successful. But everything goes horribly wrong when their partner, Jose “Butter” Sanchez is murdered. A dangerous drug war is just beginning!

 Meanwhile, Neef is falling for a young, sexy college student, on the hunt for a man with means. Enter Dana, a beautiful young seductress with a sordid past. Does Dana truly love Hanif? If “Neef ” can stay alive long enough to reveal the truth, he will fi nd out. But he’s marked for death by enemy’s who never forgives, never gives up and are motivated by greed. City of Broken Dreams depicts how even in the underworld of New York,loyalty, respect and love have their place. From the first page “Dreams” pull the reader into a world of danger, steamy sex and a touch of romance. A “ghetto love story” that will gladden the heart of all readers.

About the Author

I was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1970. Which will make my forty years old this August. I grew up hard, learning the hard cold streets of Bedford Stuyvesant. Well, I subscribe to adage "write about what you know". "City of Broken Dreams" is a depiction of my lifestyle as early on as a pre-teen until my early twenty’s. In fact, this story accurately portrays everything I have learned, which obviously couldn't be obtained from any school or university. This book is about the hood, the streets of Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant section. An area that I know inside out. Basically, if the old adage is true, write about what you know; I definitely nailed this one! My daily appetite consisted of sex, fast money and violence, which resulted in constant police scrutiny, many dealings with the judicial system,lawyers D-A-S and judges. Moreover, I strongly believe because I actually lived the lifestyle of a "Hip hop Hustler" trying to make a "come up"during the crack epidemic of the mid 80's to early 90's. give me an authentic voice to write this tale. Plus, I've read and studied all the masters of the game, who wrote about the urban experience; Donald Goines, Chester Himes, Claude Brown, Iceberg Slim, just to name a few. I learned from the best. Currently I'm incarcerated in a North Carolina prison. Sixteen years into a twenty with the L sentence. I'm thirty-nine years old, suddenly a "conscious" individual acutely aware of mistakes in the past and of the legal predicament which arose from those mistakes. However a motivating factor which inspired me to write this book "City of Broken Dreams" is the sincere hope that it will be a deterrent to anyone trying to earn a living in the drug game. Which many of my peers appear to be determined to try. What i indebted to do was explain how the drug game is more about failure than it is an success. If I could save at least one person with this "testament of the street" my job is done.