Chicago’s Drug Wars: Big Business and Body Bags Published by Outskirts Press
Author Lincoln Peters reveals the internecine wars of Chicago’s lucrative drug business and tells the fascinating, but ultimately tragic tale of Johnny Howell, a poor uneducated man just hoping, like many in his neighborhood, to make some easy money.
Chicago, IL, July 08, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Author and WWII veteran Lincoln Peters announced today the release of Big Business and Body Bags, A Journey into the Deadly Drug Business, published by Outskirts Press. Peters’ novel vividly portrays the murderous back alley battles for control of Chicago’s drug trafficking and follows the sordid and tragic footsteps of Johnny Howell, one soldier in this illegal war that has claimed more lives than all our Middle East involvement.
Johnny Howell is a typical young man growing up on the inner city streets and back alleys of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods. He has no money, no education and no job skills. Bumping along from one saloon to another, looking for some easy money, Johnny eventually finds his way into a big city gang and is then quickly indoctrinated into all the vicious, reprehensible skills -- including murder – that he’ll need to survive on these mean streets.
The Mexicans call him “gringo” and the black men call him “honky,” but Johnny is intent only on milking the great cash cow that brings millions of dollars of drugs from south of the border cartels to the streets of Chicago. It is gang against gang, fighting for the most lucrative shipping routes and distribution channels and murdering any who got in their way.
Big Business and Body Bags is an eye opening look into the penetration of the Mexican drug cartels into America’s northern cities and the strange alliances they’ve formed with local, unsophisticated street gangs such as Johnny’s. The brutality, the immorality and the terrifying day to day activities of these groups is real and is well described by Chicago native Peters, and although Johnny himself is a fiction, he is sadly representative of many of today’s young men born into the back culture of America’s northern cities.
Johnny Howell ends his career the same way most other inner city street drug dealers do: Stuffed in a body bag.
Big Business and Body Bags is available on-line in paperback through Amazon and Barnes and Noble and at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore for a maximum trade discount in quantities of ten or more.
Format: 5.5 x 8.5 paperback cream ISBN: 978-1-4327-7029-7 SRP: $14.95
5.5 x 8.5 hardback with jacket 978-1-4327-4127-3 $25.95
Kindle $ 5.99
e-Book $ 5.00
Genre: Fiction/action and adventure/urban life
About the author:
Lincoln R. Peters is a disabled veteran of WWII, wounded during the invasion of the Philippines in 1945. He has been married to his wife Maureen for fifty-four years and has two sons and five grandchildren.
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/bigbusinessandbodybags.
Outskirts Press offers high-quality, full-service self-publishing and book marketing services for writers and professionals who are seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining 100% of their rights, 100% of their profits, and 100% of the creative control. www.outskirtspress.com.
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Johnny Howell is a typical young man growing up on the inner city streets and back alleys of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods. He has no money, no education and no job skills. Bumping along from one saloon to another, looking for some easy money, Johnny eventually finds his way into a big city gang and is then quickly indoctrinated into all the vicious, reprehensible skills -- including murder – that he’ll need to survive on these mean streets.
The Mexicans call him “gringo” and the black men call him “honky,” but Johnny is intent only on milking the great cash cow that brings millions of dollars of drugs from south of the border cartels to the streets of Chicago. It is gang against gang, fighting for the most lucrative shipping routes and distribution channels and murdering any who got in their way.
Big Business and Body Bags is an eye opening look into the penetration of the Mexican drug cartels into America’s northern cities and the strange alliances they’ve formed with local, unsophisticated street gangs such as Johnny’s. The brutality, the immorality and the terrifying day to day activities of these groups is real and is well described by Chicago native Peters, and although Johnny himself is a fiction, he is sadly representative of many of today’s young men born into the back culture of America’s northern cities.
Johnny Howell ends his career the same way most other inner city street drug dealers do: Stuffed in a body bag.
Big Business and Body Bags is available on-line in paperback through Amazon and Barnes and Noble and at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore for a maximum trade discount in quantities of ten or more.
Format: 5.5 x 8.5 paperback cream ISBN: 978-1-4327-7029-7 SRP: $14.95
5.5 x 8.5 hardback with jacket 978-1-4327-4127-3 $25.95
Kindle $ 5.99
e-Book $ 5.00
Genre: Fiction/action and adventure/urban life
About the author:
Lincoln R. Peters is a disabled veteran of WWII, wounded during the invasion of the Philippines in 1945. He has been married to his wife Maureen for fifty-four years and has two sons and five grandchildren.
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/bigbusinessandbodybags.
Outskirts Press offers high-quality, full-service self-publishing and book marketing services for writers and professionals who are seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining 100% of their rights, 100% of their profits, and 100% of the creative control. www.outskirtspress.com.
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http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS
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