Rayful Edmond: Washington D.C.'s Most Notorious Drug Lord - Brossura

Ferranti, Seth

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ISBN 10: 0980068770 ISBN 13: 9780980068771

Casa editrice: Gorilla Convict Publications, 2013

Riassunto

To many in his hometown of Washington, D.C.,during his 1980s reign as the city’s biggest cocaine and crack dealer, Rayful Edmond was public enemy number one. At the height of Dodge City’s brutal crack epidemic in 1987, this 22-year-old man was responsible for distributing 60 percent of the cocaine that flooded the city’s streets. In the Chocolate City, Rayful was the undisputed king of cocaine. He was street royalty with a certified gangster resume. At his peak Rayful sold 2,000 keys a week, reaped gross profits of $70 million a month and ran an operation with over 150 soldiers to support him. By his early twenties he had established himself as the city’s most notorious drug kingpin. In the high profile and glamorous life he led, champagne flowed like water, trips to Las Vegas, New York and Los Angeles were commonplace and $50,000 shopping sprees were the routine. Rayful personified the big city drug lord and his stature epitomized all the accolades that position demanded. To the mainstream media, he encompassed all that was wrong with the city’s crack epidemic, but in the streets Rayful was a hero, an inner-city gangster who made it to the top echelons of the drug trade. A Lucky Luciano, Billy the Kid-type figure. But there were consequences to his reign. His volcanic rise coincided with an unprecedented explosion of street violence and drug addiction in the capital city. The era is remembered for murder, mayhem and bloodshed. Historians have blamed the crack storm that seized D.C. on Rayful, but Rayful maintained he was only trying to help his family live a better life and enjoy the finer materialistic trappings of capitalism that were often denied denizens of the ghetto. To the block huggers, four corner hustlers and hood mainstays Rayful was beloved, even worshipped. His appeal crossed boundaries and he was adored by children and adults alike. But to others he was feared, a man who wreaked havoc on his community. Neighborhood people saw the effects of his crack enterprise outside their front doors and it wasn’t pretty. A community divided was in essence, a community destroyed. But regardless of what people thought of Rayful, he was an enigma, the president and CEO of what authorities called “the largest network for cocaine street sales in Washington D.C.” He was a gangster legend of epic proportions, until he tarnished his legacy by turning snitch.

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Seth Ferranti is a prisoner of America's failed War on Drugs and has been writing true crime tales from inside the belly of the beast for the last 20 years. He founded gorillaconvict.com and Gorilla Convict Publications from his cell block and has watched it grow into a successful and viable website and publishing house. Seth also writes for Don Diva and F.E.D.S. magazines, thedailybeast.com, thefix.com and other magazines and websites. Check out his blog on gorillaconvict.com which posts a new story every week and check out his six published books on prison life and urban gangsters.

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Authors don't get much realer than Seth Ferranti. Having spent the last twenty years in prison he brings his readers the insider stories of the gangsters and tells it like it is. gangstersinc.com Ferranti's writing vividly captures the good, the bad and the often ugly imagery of real underworld history and characters, as only someone with his access could from behind prison walls. mafialifeblog.com Seth Ferranti writes from the ultimate insider perspective... prison. Over the past decade Ferranti has emerged as one of the most revered true crime authors, writing about some of the nation's most notorious gangsters and kingpins with a unique and authentic voice that brings to life a reality most of us will never know. Scott M. Deitche, author of Rogue Mobster Too often, true crime novels that focus on the hood read as though they are written by a tourist. They lack true insider's perspective to make the reader feel as though they are in good hands. Ferranti goes above and beyond the call of duty to leave the reader both informed and entertained. scottsmindfield.com

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Gorilla Convict Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0980068770
• ISBN 13: 9780980068771
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile