Publisher, Blackstone Audio Books (October 2007)

NOTE: Blackstone Audio VALUE / RETAIL EDITIONS are packaged in attractive, compact cardboard boxes, shrink-wrapped, with full-color art. Cassettes or compact discs are stored snuggly inside the re-closable package.

“Vibrant, pulsing journalism….” —Pete Hamill

“Mark Jacobson is a living American Master. Read him and smile on your way to enlightenment.” —Michael Daly, columnist, New York Daily News

In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in over a million dollars a day. He lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with athletes, musicians, and politicians, but Lucas was a ruthless gangster. He was notorious for using the coffins of dead GIs to smuggle heroin into the United States and, before being sentenced to seventy years in prison, he played a major role in the near death of New York City.

In American Gangster, Mark Jacobson's captivating account of the life of Frank Lucas joins other tales of New York City from the past thirty years. The collection features a number of Jacobson's most famous essays, as well as previously unpublished works and more recent articles. Together, they create a vibrant, many-layered portrait of the most fascinating city in the world, by one of the most acclaimed journalists of our time.

About the Author: MARK JACOBSON has been a contributing editor to Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Esquire, and New York. He is the author of 12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time: A Semi-Dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe; Teenage Hipster in the Modern World; and the novels Gojiro and Everyone and No One.