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Carlito's Way and After Hours
by
Edwin Torres
These two streetwise novels bring you the story of Carlito Brigante: Puerto Rican, hustler, drug dealer, and survivor. Carlito's Way follows him through Spanish Harlem's no-exit world of gangs, drugs, pimping, and the Mob, from the 1940s to the early 1970s. After Hours finds Carlito released from a five-year prison stint, and the world he knows is gone: cocaine has replace...more
Paperback, 443 pages
Published
August 1st 2002
by Prion
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Two really good books, told in the first person and filled with wonderful slang and criminal argot. These books actually deal with weighty issues like loyalty, honor, wrong versus right in all its twisted forms. Good stuff.
Surprisingly excellent books. As much as I want to like the genre of hardboiled crime novels, I've always found them sort of cheesy and never been able to really get into them. These books are definitely exceptions though. They have fantastic imagery of the criminal subculture in 1970s NYC. Interestingly, the author of these books is a New York Supreme Court Justice.
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