This Big Apple journalist focuses on the king of the Harlem heroin trade in the 1970s. Successful and cunning, he led a glamorous life, bringing in over $1 million a day... until he landed in prison for 70 years. With several other famous essays, this is a vibrant, many-layered portrait of New York City. The movie stars Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, and Oscar-nominated Ruby Dee. "[He] boasts a novelistic eye and muscular prose."—Entertainment Weekly