Black Gangster by Donald Goines

Author:Donald Goines [Goines, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, General, African American, Urban
ISBN: 9780758294616
Google: 7758AwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0870679848
Publisher: Holloway House
Published: 2007-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

14

THE AFTERNOON SUN had come out and the autumn day was beginning to take on the glow of Indian summer. People were out on the sidewalks standing around and gossiping, anything to keep them out of the stuffy, smelly flats they called their homes.

Ruby drove slowly down the crowded street, watching for the kids darting in and out of traffic. She had to stop and wait until a boy chased a beat-up football across the street. Prince glanced up from a paperback novel he had been reading. He watched the boy pick up the ball, almost under the wheels of the Cadillac, then run back and join the crowd of boys who had been watching from the curb. They waited until the cars drove past, then reentered the street to continue their game.

Ruby pulled over and parked beside the curb. "You want me to wait, or would you rather I come back for you later on?"

Prince glanced up and down the street. "There's a drugstore down there, baby. You can walk down there and get you a pop or something while you wait on me. It shouldn't take me too long to finish up here, so make sure you hurry up back." He climbed out of the car, then waited until Ruby had got out, too, before continuing on his way.

Prince stopped on the second floor of the apartment house. His knock was quickly answered by someone peeping through a small hole in the door. Quickly the door opened and Prince stepped into the room. Men were lying all around the apartment, each with a weapon under his armpit in a shoulder holster.

Preacher shut the door. "What's happening, baby?" he yelled. "I was beginning to wonder if you was going to show up."

Prince smiled at the remark. "I started not to show up, man, but the thought of all that cash being left alone if I didn't forced me to get off my ass and come on over." He examined the other men. "Hawk, you look like you might be a little nervous." Prince grinned, taking the sting out of his words. "And you, too, Bossgame," he said.

Bossgame grinned in return. He was tall, with a golden brown complexion. His extreme thinness had once earned him the nickname of "the Shadow," but his success at playing on people had caused his associates to call him "Bossgame."

"What about Eddie, Prince? You don't think he's a monument of pure nerve, do you?"

"I ain't shittin' on myself!" Eddie exclaimed loudly, his words bringing a roar of laughter from the men. Eddie was the youngest man in the room, just eighteen, but he had spent six years in reform schools, so he was considered reliable.

Prince stared at the young, brown-skinned man. Out of all the men in the room, Eddie was his main concern. He didn't want him to do anything that would bring more heat down on them than was necessary. Eddie was a good man, he believed, but he might do something that was uncalled for.

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