Grip of the Lion's Paw
Honesty's Deceit
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Lil' Eli arrives in Houston from Detroit to buy $6-million dollars in drugs from Honesty with his fast depleting Michigan Lotto winnings. But his greed sours the deal, prompting Honesty and his "Clique 44 Mob" (Space Monkey, Crazy J, Flattop, and Suga Phree) to set him up and jack him for his entire grip (money). A violent road-rage-wild-west-pistol-play encounter ignites love-at-first-sight between Honesty and Destiny; He's the 22-year old drop-dead gorgeous creole rough-neck leader of a micro-drug cartel; She's the 32-year old in-yo-face, traffick stopping, take no shit, swarthy-goddess, and well-educated wealthy owner of Hair Tronics Inc. A successful chain of 17 beauty salons, who just might be Honesty's first cousin! Francis "The Franchise" Batiste'," the high profile, super mega-deal making sports attorney in Dallas receives an unsettling call from Honesty; The son she was misled to believe died 22-years ago, asking for her help. Honesty has been taken into police custody for the gruesome murders of Bobby Ray LeBlanc and Jack Channey, the Mayor of Houston, who were both found shot to death in Bobby Ray's mansion, naked in bed together! Having successfully completed the bulk of her commissioned mission. Charra allows her mad lust for Honesty to cloud her judgement, and the table is turned, and he kills her instead. Drugs, sex, violence, and toxic hoo-doo beliefs intercourse throughout the unfolding of events. In the end, Honesty is inadvertently afforded a clean slate when the Fed's investigation is abruptly halted with the unexpected execution of Hector in Mexico City by rival drug traffickers, and a covert call from the State Department. A two million dollar bribe is paid to, June "Keystone" Badu, the first blackwoman Chief of Police of Houston, for her securing Honesty's fresh start. Francis receives poetic justice when she's awarded sole ownership of the $950 million dollar LeBlanc Enterprises. Destiny proposes to Honesty after a 32-year old blood test reveals that, Bobby Ray LeBlanc wasn't her father after all. Although he leaves her the bulk of his of multi-million dollar personal estate.
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A day trip to New Orleans to visit his family's spiritual advisor, Madame Robicheaux, reveals to Honesty, a 22-year deception by his family to conceal the truth about his birth mother, Francis "The Franchise" Batiste', and a plot to assassinate his entire family. But it's too late! Hector, the LeBlanc's billionaire drug trafficking partner in Mexico City, has put the sexy-psycho-assassin, Charra Del Rio in motion, in a paranoid attempt at damage control, spawned by an on-going criminal investigation that's getting too close.
About the Author
A. Norman Joseph is the new voice of "street fiction" with his 'realism' approach to story telling that transports the reader into a fictional world that breathes the life of the streets like no other before him. He has an uncanny gift for conveying vivid images that are so concise, his stories seem to be more realistic than fiction. Growing up in Houston's turbulent hard-core neighborhood of Acres Home aka "The 44" he fashioned himself after many of the street hustlers he was exposed to during his childhood. His biggest influences were his uncles Charles and George who were two of Houston's major drug traffickers, yet it was his mother Gloria's street teachings that propelled him into the life of a young hustler. He has a talent for creating characters with a variety of life issues while crafting his stories deep inside the belly of the streets. Although he seems blighted by the sufferings of the ghetto, he is equally fluent with the life styles of the well-to-do. "Grip of the Lion's Paw" is the first installment of a trilogy that will keep the reader enthralled and begging for more. A. Norman Joseph is the "real thing" in street fiction, he has been there and done that ... believe that!