This novel charts the rise of White Folks, a white negro who uses his colour as his trump card in the tough game of the con. Blue-eyed, light-haired and white-skinned, White Folks was a successful con man, a hustler in the jungle of Southside Chicago where only the sharpest survived....

Taking up where "Trick Baby" left off, White Folks moves up to Canada after the death of his partner and mentor, Blue Howard. There, he hooks up with the Vicksburg Kid, who completes his con education. Together they form a formidable duo, playing for the highest stakes in the Unhappy Virgin Game....

A collection of six tales from the underground. From the opening title story, where Slim gets ripped off by Airtight Willie, one of New York's slickest con men, to "Satin", a tale of revenge in which the heist goes badly wrong, the reader is given a close-up of the badlands of urban America....

The story of Chicago's Mafia, and the power struggle that ensues when the greedy Don, Jimmy Collucci, attempts to become the king pin of Chicago's "Honored Society". Collucci has a lifelong hatred of dedicated "Black Warrior" Jessie Taylor, whom he has faced in turf wars in the streets of Chicago....

These short stories are a collection of soul-bearing confessions in which Iceberg Slim presents the wisdom gained through a life of serious excess and violence. Robert Beck is the author of "Pimp", "Trick Baby" and "Mama Black Widow"....

"One of the most exciting literary revival series since the rediscovery of Jim Thompson's novels" (Playboy), Old School Books "is subtly transforming the landscape of post-war black fiction" (Bomb).

"Mama Black Widow" is the nickname of Otis Tilson, a comely and tragic black queen adrift with his brothers and sisters in the dark ghetto world of pimpdom and violent crime. His story is told in the gut-level language of the homosexual underworld--an unforgettable testament of life lived on the margins of a racist and predatory urban hell....