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Superfly:
the True, Untold Story of Frank Lucas, American Gangster
by Ron Chepesiuk and Anthony Gonzalez
AVAILABLE AS A BOOK AND DVD
-- First 1000 books will be autographed by the authors
“Back in that day, you
can remember they had a war called the Vietnam War. And every night, there’d
be pictures of the soldiers getting high because all the heroin was
dirt-cheap. I heard that, I said, “Hell!” I jumped on a plane, went to
Bangkok checked into a hotel for a couple of months—and the rest is
history.”
Frank "Superfly" Lucas,
quoted in the New York Post,
February 8, 2007
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On November 2,
2007, Hollywood introduces its
latest gangster
legend with Universal Pictures’ release of its movie, “American
Gangster.” Starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, the movie, a
can’t miss, blockbuster, claims to be based on the true story of
“Superfly" Frank
Lucas, a major drug dealer from 1970s Harlem. According to the
Hollywood hype, the movie shows how “Lucas outplays all of the
leading crime syndicates and becomes not only one of the city’s main
line corruptors but part of its circle of legit civic city
superstars, ”But how does the real life Frank
Lucas compare to the Hollywood creation? In
their book and DVD, Ron Chepesiuk and Anthony Gonzalez investigate
the life and times of Frank Lucas and answer many questions: how big
a drug trafficker was Superfly? What was his relationship to the La
Cosa Nostra? Was he really THE MAN, the pioneer and criminal
entrepreneur who "Opened up the Asian connection".
Anyone wanting to
learn the real story behind Hollywood’s making of a gangster legend
should buy this
Book and
DVD
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POSTED SINCE OCTOBER 16, 2007
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