Donald Goines Books In Order

Kenyatta Books In Order

  1. Crime Partners (1974)
  2. Cry Revenge (1974)
  3. Kenyatta’s Escape (1974)
  4. Death List (1974)
  5. Kenyatta’s Last Hit (1975)

Novels

  1. Who*reson (1972)
  2. Black Gangster (1972)
  3. Dopefiend (1972)
  4. Black Girl Lost (1973)
  5. Street Players (1973)
  6. White Mans Justice, Black Mans Grief (1973)
  7. Never Die Alone (1974)
  8. Eldorado Red (1974)
  9. Daddy Cool (1974)
  10. Swamp Man (1974)
  11. Inner City Hoodlum (1975)

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Donald Goines Books Overview

Crime Partners

Goines’ powerful first novel lays bare the bloody, brutal world of crime in the black ghetto, where, as Goines put it, ‘kindness was the sweetest con of all.’ Here is the gusty and often shocking world of Billy and Jackie, prison buddies on the streets and hot n the trigger.

Cry Revenge

Young Curtis Carson doesn’t mean to rip off the Chicanos on his backyard crap games. He just rolls the dice better. But Chicanos don’t see it that way, and when one of their brothers is brutally slaughtered in a barroom shootout because of Curtis’ dealings with hero*in pusher Fat George, the Mexicans Cry Revenge on Curtis, leaving his brother with a wrecked body that will forever prevent him form being the basketball star he’d always dreamed of being. Curtis swears vengeance, and the streets run red with black Chicano warfare!

Kenyatta’s Escape

Kenyatta had two ambitions: cleaning the ghetto of all drug traffic and gunning down all the racist white cops! But a black and white detective team, Benson and Ryan, is on his tail and has discovered the location of his army’s camp. Armed with tanks, they bring a bloody doomsday to his followers. In Kenyatta’s Escape, Gionse continues his story of the bloody, brutal world of crime he began in Crime Pathners and Death List. They’re all back for a coast to coast chase that spells gripping adventure.

Death List

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 gandlord with the army of brothers to deal deadly with crooked cops and dope dealers; Benson and Ryan, fight to stop the black crie wave. It’s doomsday when Kenyatta joins then in a war against a secret list of drug pushers.

Kenyatta’s Last Hit

Kenyatta, the living black legend, concentrates his army’s rutheless forces to rid the black community of rampant drug traffic. With the help of Elliot Stone, a black football star and latest recruit to the army, Kenyatta discovers the identity of the fat cat king of the drug pushers. The crack black and white detective team of Benson and Ryan follows Kenyatta’s trail of blood across the country…
and a final confrontation high atop of Laa Vegas; most glittering hotels.

Who*reson

Donald Goines takes the reader into the violent world of ghetto prostitution. Who*reson Jones, the novel’s hero, is the son of a beautiful black prosititute and an unknown white john. By the age of sixteen, he is a fully fledged pimp, cold blooded, ruthless. Written in gritty street talk, Who*reson‘s story affords a startling glimpse into the hell of the inner city, yet brisrles with bitter humor and defiant pride.

Black Gangster

A large part of Goines’ thirty nine years of life was spent being a successful pimp, a heif, an operator of corn liquor houses, an armed robber, and a small time dope dealer. He lived the life of the streets and out of that experience he created Prince, the anti hero of Black Gangster! It’s the story of the shocking underworld of black organised crime and the fledgling black ‘godfather’ who goes from teenager ganglord to powerful Detroit mobster. Like the gangsters of the 1920’s, he begins with boot legging and branches out into every known crime

Dopefiend

For twenty three years of his life Donald Goinse lived in the dark, despair ridden world of the junkie. It started while he was doing military service in Korea and ended with his murder at the age of thirty nine. He had worked up to a hundred dollars a day habit and out of the agonizing hell came Dopefiend! It is the shocking nightmare story of a black hero*in addict. Trapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriend both handsome, talented, and full of promise are inexorably pulled into death of the hardcore junkie!

Black Girl Lost

In this shocking novel of a young girl alone on the streets, Goines delves into yet another facet of the ghetto experience the dark, despair ridden world of a black girl’s soul! Sandra took to the streets when she was eight years old and tried to fight off the hunger pangs by shoplifting and moving into the profits of drug pushing. The she met Chink and discovered love and affection…
and rape and murder!

Street Players

In this, his fourth novel, Goines tests the tensile strength of a ghetto spawn who clawed his way to the top and fights like hell to stay there. He’s known as ‘Earl the Black Pearl,’ and he’s left the homeboys behind way behind. He’s cool, sharp as an ice crystal, and it seems that no one can touch him. Until someone even higher up puts the heat on and his friends begin dropping like flies of lead poisoning. That’s when Earl fights back…
and all hell breaks loose!

White Mans Justice, Black Mans Grief

Goines’ classic novel of prison life, it has been called ‘one of the most revealing books ever written about prison life and the bigotry built into the system.’ This is the story of Chester Himes, who thought he was the baddest man to come down the street. Behind prison walls he was nothing more than fresh meat.

Never Die Alone

King David never let anything stand in his way, as he clawed his way out of tyhe mean streets. If it took busting an old lady’s head open with a Coke bottle for her last dollar, so be it. Mixing battery acid with cocaine to gain revenge was acceptable, too. Whatever it took. Then he made it big only to find others had not forgotten, had no intention of forgiving. They came after him. He left behind a Cadillac and a diary, left it to a writer Donald Goines called ‘Paul Pawlowski.’ Like all Goines’ novels, Never Die Alone is based on truth.

Eldorado Red

Again, baesd on personal experience! When Donald Goines was discharged from the Air Force, he was addicted to hero*in. To support his habit he staged the robbery of a number of local houses. And from that experience came Eldorado Red! It’s the vicious story of crooks who get richer with the dollars of the ghetto poor. He’s got it knocked; new cars, mellow women and plenty money. Then he learns that treachery falls at the feet of his own son!

Daddy Cool

‘ Donald Goines’s novels have sold millions of copies in the inner cities rappers are big fans. Originally published in 1974, this high profile paperback reprint takes him mainstream. It’s about time.’ Suzanne Rura, Entertainment Weekly

Inner City Hoodlum

Johnny Washington, a black teenager in Los Angeles, knows the freight yard like the back of his hand. He and his pals, Josh and Buddy, hit them often, stealing for a fence. They have to. They’re the soul support of their families. But when Josh is killed by a security guard who gets his brains scattered by Buddy with nunchaku sticks, they are forced to look for other work. They find it with the underworld kings in Elliot Davis. But when Davis recruits Johnny’s sister for his stabke and later OD’s her, Johnny and Buddy come on with a vengeance.

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