Thugs and the Women Who Love Them

Wahida Clark

Description

New York Times best-selling author Wahida Clark is all too familiar with the terrifying truths of ghetto life. The first novel in her gritty, gripping Thug Series takes you into a world where a wrong choice can be the last choice a person ever makes. In a 'hood boiling over with sex, brutality, and crime, three friends are at a turning point. They can surrender to the streets and the murderous men who rule there, or walk a totally different path. But nothing is simple for women addicted to life on the edge. And everything has consequences. Angel, Jaz, and Kyra are all leading double lives, torn between working hard to leave the ghetto behind--and being dragged back in by the lying, pimping, drug-dealing men they can't seem to let go. From jealous rampages to bloody turf wars to rage-fueled vendettas, a tangled web of sex and violence binds these women to the very place that can destroy them. Get ready to enter a heart-pounding world of danger and eroticism mixed with a glimmer of hope.

Sujets

• New York
• New Jersey
• Karma
• Thug
• Heat
• James Hunt
• James Patterson
• Hill Harper
• Hustler
• Sister Souljah
• Thugs
• Thuggee
• Jackie Collins
• Terry McMillan
• Cash money
• Donald Goines
• Swipe
• Roger Hayden
• Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets
• Ed James
• Omar Tyree
• Mike Jefferies
• Brenda Jackson
• Jeff Carson
• Anne Frasier
• Vindicated
• Karma II
• The Devil's Game
• Mike Sanders
• Feenin'
• Nueva Jersey
• Nueva York
• What is love

Informations

• Publié par: W. Clark Distribution & Media Corporation
• Date de parution: 01 décembre 2005
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781936649921
• Langue: English

Extrait

Praise for Thugs and the Women Who Love Them
 
 
“It’s Gangsta and coming from a female point of view.
Can’t wait for Part II.”
—“The Ghost” Styles P
 
“People are trying to have sequels to their books after yours came out. I smile because the original person has set the tone. Keep writing!”
—Tru, Tru Books, Hartford, CT
 
“It’s Gangsta, Gangsta! Love your work!”
—Project Pat, Three 6 Mafia
 
“Thugs and the Women Who Love Them reminds me of another great black author, Donald Goines.”
—Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff
 
 
 
“Wahida Clark . . . has a perfect sense of timing with her first novel Thugs and the Women Who Love Them. A novel that takes a look at reality and the rough friction of life. A guaranteed
‘Hood Classic’ . . . You won’t be able to put it down.”
—Freeze “Free Money,” The Game

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THUGS
and the Women Who Love Them
WAHIDA CLARK
 
 
 
WAHIDA CLARK PRESENTS PUBLISHING
http://www.wclarkpublishing.com
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This book is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to names, characters or individuals is purely coincidental.
 
Copyright © 2004, 2005 by Wahida Clark
 
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Wahida Clark Presents Publishing, LLC
60 Evergreen Place
Suite 904
East Orange, New Jersey 07018
973-678-9982
www.wclarkpublishing.com
Copyright 2004, 2005 © by Wahida Clark
All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.
ISBN e-book: 978-1-936649-92-1
Cover design and layout by NuanceArt
Book interior design by NuanceArt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THIS IS THE ORDER IN WHICH TO READ THE THUG SERIES
Thugs and The Women Who Love Them
Every Thug Needs A Lady
Thug Matrimony
Thug Lovin’
Justify My Thug
To get a bonus out of the Thug Series, read The Golden Hustla before you read Justify My Thug. Why? Because a couple of the Thug characters pays a surprise visit in Justify.
Now for the real Die-Hard fans of the Thug Series, after you read Justify My Thug, you gotta read
THE LETTER by the one and only Trae Macklin .
Followed by THE RESPONSE by his wife Tasha Macklin both are ONLY available in e-Book format. Kindle, Nook and iTunes.
Keep up with everything on www.wclarkpublishing.com
www.facebook.com/wahidaclark
www.facebook.com/wahidaclark’sreadersclub
Talk to you soon,
Wahida

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Additional Books by Wahida Clark are:
The Golden Hustla
What’s Really Hood?
Payback is A Mutha
Payback With Ya Life (part 2)
Payback Ain’t Enough (part 3) Drops: 4/24/2012 *
*Will include the first chapter of Thugs Part 6. It leaves off right where Justify My Thug ends!!
A sneak preview. Hope you are ready!

 
 
 
CHECK OUT TITLES BY WAHIDA CLARK PRESENTS PUBLISHING
TRUST NO MAN by CASH
TRUST NO MAN Part II by CASH
THIRSTY By MIKE SANDERS
THIRSTY II By MIKE SANDERS
THE GAME OF DECEPTION By VICTOR L. MARTIN
NUDE AWAKENING By VICTOR L. MARTIN
KARMA WITH A VENGEANCE By TASH HAWTHORNE
KARMA: FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY By TASH HAWTHORNE
THE PUSSY TRAP By Ne Ne CAPRI
LICKIN’ LICENSE By INTELLIGENT ALLAH
LICKIN’ LICENSE II By INTELLIGENT ALLAH
THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE By ANTHONY FIELDS
THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE: LOVE IS PAIN By ANTHONY FIELDS
FEENIN’ By SERENITI HALL
STILL FEENIN’ By SERENITI HALL
 
TITLES FOR YOUNG ADULTS
THE BOY IS MINE! By CHARMAINE WHITE
UNDER PRESSURE By RASHAWN HUGHES
NINETY-NINE PROBLEMS By GLORIA-DOTSON LEWIS

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dedicated
 
 
This book is dedicated to all the brothas and sistahs on lockdown, and to the entire
Hip-Hop generation.
Thank you for making this, the first underground street novel, to go triple platinum!
 

 
 
Acknowledgments
 
All praise and thanks is forever due to the Creator, for without Him this would not be possible. I thank Him for placing all of the needed resources in my path.
To my soul mate, thanks for your vision, inspiration, and most important, your patience with me. Much love. To our daughters, Hasana and Muquarabun, you two are such a blessing. D. Deering, thanks for your free advice on contracts and editing. Treena Wright, my friend thank you for feelin’ this book as if it was your own.
First, to my typist and most dependable partna, Kisha; even though you whined, cried and complained 90 percent of the time and delivered a baby boy in the middle of this project, I got much love for you. I understand that not everyone is a workaholic like myself. To my other typists, Nobel, Hafida, and Samataha, thank you. Thank God for editors. I love what you did. Thank you.
To the first Atwood crew, those sistahs who were my first readers when it was on yellow notebook paper in my sloppy handwriting: Melissa Long and Lil’ Memphis. To those sistahs who thought I should be writing instead of eating, sleeping, or breathing: Mecca, LoLo, and Shanna P.
To the rest of you who passed the yellow pages around and was just as excited as myself: Monica C., April C., Twigg, Miranda, Dana, Tammy, Cassie, Maggie, Daniele, Duresha, who also does my hair, Big Meeka, Neicey B., Tanya, K.K. Hatcher, Shawn K., Simone, Pauletta B., and Lucky. Thanks, K.K. Wall for sending a copy to Free of 106 and Park and to the two sistahs who can read an entire novel in a few hours and whose opinion I highly respect; Ms. Belinda Marshal and Teesa Little. When they said
this was good, I knew it was on! Thanks, Michelle D., for snapping my picture for this novel.
Thanks to The Doug Banks morning Show and Walt Baby Love for keeping me up in the morning while I was cranking out the pages. Thanks to Lexington’s 107.9 The Beat. Thanks to Maxwell, Mary J. Blige, Toni Braxton, Marvin Gaye, Jaheim, Jadakiss, Case, Carl Thomas, and Ginuwine for making the music that helped me keep my flow.
Thanks to the C.O.s who made copies for me when the raggedy-ass inmate copy machine was broken (which was all of the time): Contreras, Martin, Henderson, D. Logan, S. Logan, Grier, Fox, Goins, Buttrey, Byrd, Doyle, Garrett, O’Brian, Breathett, and last but not least, K. Donovan.
Thanks to all the Black book clubs. Thanks to all the Black bookstores who put me on their bookshelves. Thanks to everyone I forgot to mention, and special thanks to all the Black authors who blazed the path before me. My biggest ups to Carl Weber, who wasted no time—and jumped immediately on this project. Thanks!
Special thanks to the authors who wrote me back: Teri Woods, Roy Glenn and especially Sonia Caulton, who told me to make sure that I write every day.
Thanks to my mom, dad, my lil’ bro Mel, Aunt Ginger, Aunt Marva, Ann, and Carla. To my peeps, Shakira, Qurana, and Al- Nisa, who let me blow up their phone bills and never complained (not to me, at least). ’Preciate the love. Peace and one love to everyone I forgot to mention, and to all who wrote me, sent me money, books, and magazines.
If you’d like to holla at your girl, please write me at:
 
Wahida Clark
c/o Kisha Upshaw
P.O. Box 8520
Newark, NJ 07108
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PART ONE: Angel
 
Chapter 1
 
 
Thank you very much, Ms. Thompson, and please come again.” The saleswoman smiled, shaking Angel’s hand eagerly before she handed her three Wilson’s Leather boutique shopping bags and a receipt.
“No, thank you,” Angel replied. “And I’ll be sure to tell all my friends about your store.”
As she headed to the door, Angel turned to look at the woman, and she had to laugh. The salesgirl had picked up a calculator and was furiously punching in numbers, obviously calculating her commission on the $4,400.00 purchase Angel had just made. Too bad she had no idea that the check Angel had written was from a stolen checkbook, and the account had been closed for months. So Angel walked out of Wilson’s with three big shopping bags filled with lots of items she would sell and a few for herself.
This was Angel’s hustle to keep cash in her pockets. Going to law school was no easy task. It was a full-time job in itself. Trying to work and study just didn’t work for her at all. There was no way she’d be able to finish school a semester early with a full- time job. She had to do one or the other, so she choose school.
She’d already managed to get her Bachelor’s degree in three years. Now her goal was to