At twenty-six Ghetti is beginning to tire of his life as a drug hustler in Durham, North Carolina. It’s a dangerous life and it has been getting harder and harder to know who to trust. Still, Ghetti is surprised when a deal with two new customers–Arabs looking to make a big purchase–turns out to be a near-deadly setup. Can it be that his young buddy Poo-Man has turned on him?
After Ghetti settles the score with his two dangerous customers, he hightails it to Goldsboro, North Carolina where he hides away with his cousin Mance. There he plots his revenge against Poo-Man. Back in Durham police detectives Amanda Hartford and Volanda Carter investigate the murder of two Arab men. A nosy neighbor leads them to Poo Man’s girlfriend, Maria. Maria become one–but not the only–point where the officers’ professional–and personal–lives intersect with Ghetti’s. The mistaken identities and hidden connections that fuel the plot of this book may remind readers of Elizabethan comedies, but Shakespeare and his contemporaries never wrote anything as X-rated as The Game of Deception.
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