Description
Book SynopsisPart true crime, part work of urban sociology,
Land of Opportunity is a meticulously researched account of the rise and fall of the Chambers brothers, who ran a multi-million-dollar crack cocaine operation in Detroit in the 1980s.
Trade ReviewWith graceful restraint, Adler shows us that the war on drugs is not a war of the county against those who would bring it down by rejecting its values and grasping at easy money. It is a war of a country against itself, against its history of racism, against its own values of materialism and lack of concern for all its people." -
The Washington Post"Relying on countless interviews [. . .] including interviews with the jailed brothers, William M. Adler offers not only an excellent chronicle of the rags-to-riches-to-prison-garb story of these particular entrepreneurs but also a cogent explanation of the social and economic conditions in this country that make dealing drugs an attractive career choice." -
Chicago TribuneTable of Contents
- Foreword
- Cast of Selected Characters
- Introduction: Homecoming
- Chapter One: Land of Cotton
- Chapter Two: Washing Windows in a Blizzard
- Chapter Three: Heaven Dust
- Chapter Four: 'BJ, Why Don't You Start Selling Crack?'
- Chapter Five: Cool Hand Larry
- Chapter Six: Moving Like Lightning
- Chapter Seven: Marlow's One-Stop
- Chapter Eight: 'Good-bye, Dixie Land'
- Chapter Nine: Too Windy for Tear Gas
- Chapter Ten: 'We Rich, Goddammit!'
- Chapter Eleven: 'Fuck It, I'll Fix Him'
- Chapter Twelve: All in the Family
- Chapter Thirteen: A Tale of Two Cities
- Chapter Fourteen: As Close As Brothers Get
- Epilogue: Nothing to Lose
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
