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Mr. Untouchable: My Crimes and Punishments
by: Leroy "Nicky" Barnes

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1092
EAN: 9781590710418
ISBN: 159071041X
Label: Rugged Land
Manufacturer: Rugged Land
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: March 06, 2007
Publisher: Rugged Land
Release Date: March 06, 2007
Studio: Rugged Land
Sales Rank: 308266

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Product Description:
From inside the Federal Witness Protection Program, the "Black Godfather" chronicles the 1970s New York City underworld and the most devastating urban crime wave in history.

1962 LEROY "NICKY" BARNES walks out of Green Haven State Prison. There are an estimated 153,000 heroin abusers in the United States.

1977 Two million junkies score $100 million worth of Barnes's smack a year. Sporting flashy suits, riding in a Citroën with a Maserati engine and satisfying a wife while pleasuring a harem of mistresses, Barnes presides over a staggering multinational dealership that pushes dope and launders money with the efficiency of a Fortune 500 company. Despite President Nixon's creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration and New York State's adoption of the no tolerance Rockefeller drug laws, Barnes's operation seems impregnable.

How does a small-time hustler and heroin addict end up on the cover of the New York Times Magazine as MR. UNTOUCHABLE, the one gangster the Feds can't touch? And how is the future Mayor of New York City Rudolf Giuliani involved? With Machiavellian pragmatism matched with biblical fury, Barnes lays bare his life's remarkable trajectory--a rise, fall and resurrection defined by brutality, brotherhood and betrayal.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Quite A Page Turner!
I picked up this book the last week of May and I finished it in 3 days!! This book was well written and a definite page turner. Not often found in most memoirs or biographies.

I'm not one to read many biographies or memoirs, or at least until recently. I was surprised at how intriguing and interesting this book was. The narrative voice drew me in.

If you don't know much about Nicky Barnes, the basics will do: He's a notorious drug-addict turned drug-kingpin from one of New York's most fam...more I picked up this book the last week of May and I finished it in 3 days!! This book was well written and a definite page turner. Not often found in most memoirs or biographies.

I'm not one to read many biographies or memoirs, or at least until recently. I was surprised ... Read More

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- heroin guy
You can tell that Nicky wrote this and thats the beauty of this book, or he employed a very good ghost writer. Because his voice steamrolls thru everything. I would have hoped that he would have gotten the electric chair at the end because he deserves that. this book may have benefitted from some photos.

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- A Gritty Look into the Harlem Drug Scene
Those looking for more on Harlem gangsters should check out Harlem Godfather: The Rap on my Husband, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson which I co-authored with Bumpy Johnson's 93-year-old widow, Mayme Hatcher Johnson.

I was born and raised in Harlem, and so I related to many of the things depcited by Barnes is his very well-written book, Mr. Untouchable. I found it interesting that Barnes still seems to be so very bitter after all these years, even after exacting his revenge by turning his former friends in.

And I have to say, I ALWAYS wondered why Barnes decided to pose for those New York Times -- now I know! Very informative book!

Rating:

- The making of a drug kingpin

This book is something else. I picked it up not knowing too much about Nicky Barnes, but the stories I'd heard about him really intrigued me.
After reading the book I decided I really don't like him.
Not only was he a drug dealer, but he seems to be a very bitter man. He doesn't seem to have a kind word to say about anyone. Not only did he snitch on his enemies, he also snitched on his so-called friends, and even his girlfriend. Then he talks about how sad he was that she died. But he was getting ready to send her to prison for life.
What kind of love is that?
What kind of man is that?
Not a very a nice one. Even if he wasn't a drug dealer I wouldn't like him. He's just not a very nice person.

Rating:

- Great Read
This is a great book tells how the drug trade was done when Heroin was King of New York before crack cocaine. Nicky Barnes could have been the Ceo of a Fortune 500 company with his business sense. but he went down the wrong road and it cost him 30 years of his life and Betrayal from his Women and his crew. i would highly recommend this book

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