![]() "Break one!" The yell was sharp and, before it had diminished, the sound of over a hundred steel doors opening together drowned it out. Suddenly the sound he had been waiting for reached him loud and clear. It had been a long time, but he had managed to keep his sanity. He stopped in front of the small calendar he kept on the wall and smiled. THE SUN WAS SHINING through the bars on the window as Prince, tall, slim, and black, got up from his bed and paced back and forth in his cell. Special Preview of Street Players-page 301 Holloway House Originals by Donald Goines ![]() By this time next year, he planned to have the city of Detroit all wrapped up. He had learned the hard way that, if you were going to live a life of crime, go for the big buck. He had come to prison at the tender age of eighteen now, four years later, he was leaving with an education a man could get nowhere else. ![]() Fear and hatred can be read on all faces." dives into the hellish world of the ghetto dear to Chester Himes, minus the humor. His stories almost have an ethnographic value." "What is great about Goines is that you feel you've become more intelligent once you have read his stories of pain and grief. ![]() "After Chester Himes, the "Serie Noire" could not overlook Donald Goines, the most interesting black crime writer in many years. "A flashing talent straight from the streets of the lost." ![]()
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