Name: Prisoner of Dreams
Brand: Strategic Media Books (US)
SKU: 9781939521026
Price: 19.99 GBP
Availability: InStock

Prisoner of Dreams

Confessions of a Harlem Drug Dealer

By (author): Rick Talley

Published by Strategic Media Books (US)

In Stock

£19.99

Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
Illustrations: 20 b/w photos
ISBN: 9781939521026
Publication Date: 15-Aug-2013

Subjects:
Autobiography: general
True crime

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An African American soldier returns home to New York City from the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. It is a time and turbulence and change. Racism is very much alive in America. Times are tough for a young black man in America, especially one who has fought for his country in an unpopular war. Rick Talley takes what he believes the only economic road open to him: drug dealing. This book presents a large cast of characters, from small time street hustlers and pimps to Hollywood and Las Vegas celebrities, to organised crime figures. In a poignant, eye-opening memoir, the author describes his life and the times, the good and the bad, in New York City and Harlem during one of the most seminal periods in America history.

Based in New York City, Rick Talley is a Vietnam War veteran and the recipient of two Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and other awards for outstanding service to Country. He also spent 17 years in prison for drug trafficking.

Intriguing, Prisoner of Dreamscaptures a moment in time and al-lows the reader to be there. Talley educates the reader about the se-crets of a fascinating lifestyle. Reggie Wells, legendary DJ, For-merly of 98.7 Kiss FM Radio, New York City

As a personal and long lasting associate and friend of Rick Talley, let me say that this book is the truth, as well as a serious accounting of an intriguing life style in one of the Big Apples most interesting eras. Jesse Gray, Harlem hustler and boss maker