“Another tale of raw ambition gone wild among high-powered African-Americans….”—BooklistGordon Perkins is one of Wall Street’s most successful investment bankers. But his hunger for money can’t match his appetite for cocaine. After one line too many, he’s lying in a coma…Paul Taylor is a lawyer, businessman, and recently remarried to brilliant Deirdre. He thinks he has every...

From the glitz and glamour to the power struggles and private dramas, this intriguing portrait of New York’s African-American elite uncovers all the secrets only an insider could reveal …Sture Jorgenson’s rise from a dishwasher to part-owner of a trendy restaurant has him rubbing elbows with many powerful people, but when Sture gains entrée into The Pride, he becomes part of a coterie of New York’s most accomplished black men and women. Paul Taylor...

Connoisseurs of edgy, contemporary African-American fiction find the novels of Wallace Ford prime offerings. In this riveting sequel, a powerful and unscrupulous investment banker learns the hard way that what goes up must come down. Ever since Gordon Perkins made off with his partners' money, he's been living fast, but losing even faster.