A new edition of the first novel by the legendary musician and Godfather of Rap, a 1970s Harlem noir tale

Digging the rhythms of the street, where the biggest deal life has to offer is getting high, this hip, fast-moving thriller relates the strange story of the murder of a teenage boy called John Lee. The story is told in the words of four men who knew him when he was just another kid working after school, hanging out, waiting for something to happen. Just who did kill John Lee and why?

An early novel from the groundbreaking artist behind The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, about militant student activists struggling against their administration for basic rights On the campus of Sutton University Virginia, the students are trying to carry forth the message of reconstruction to a university resistant to change. The failure of Sutton to embrace the changing attitudes of the 1960s has necessitated extreme action and the revolution is nigh in this scornful statement on the way in which human beings are conditioned to think.