‘Ron Chepesiuk is a master of high octane journalism.’īert Ruiz, author of ‘The Colombian Civil War’ From corrupt cops to bent politicians, alliances to turf wars, American Gangster is a gripping chronicle of modern organised crime. The 1980s brought the crack epidemic and violent posses such as the Nine Trey Gangstas, the No Fear Gang and the lethal Preacher Crew. White bootleggers like Dutch Schultz and Owney Madden, who held sway during the era of the Cotton Club, eventually gave way to black godfathers like Bumpy Johnson and Nicky ‘Mr Untouchable’ Barnes.īy the time of Frank Lucas, the heroin trade was devastating swathes of this once-vibrant area. Once a fashionable area, a property collapse emptied Harlem’s streets of wealthy white residents and by the 1930s gambling and drugs had boosted the growth of gangsterism. Lucas is just one of a cast of extraordinary larger-than-life characters in American Gangster, the saga of the biggest players in New York City’s most notorious neighbourhood from Mafia dons to the cocaine gangs of today. His exploits have been immortalised in a Hollywood blockbuster starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.
His gang smuggled heroin from Vietnam to the US in American warplanes and were rumoured to hide drugs in the bodybags of dead GIs.
Frank Lucas was “Super Fly”, the number one drug lord on the mean streets of Harlem.
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