Paperbacks from the Blaxploitation Era

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Story of a Black boy who wants to make money but doesn’t feel he has any legitimate opportunity in the white man’s world, so he turns to selling women. 

An up and coming politician is gunned down and his bodyguard (Superspade) is intent on finding the killer.

An expose into the seedy underworld of the drug culture from the perspective of users and pushers alike. 

A young man’s ascension through the world of the undertaking profession and the colorful cast of characters he encounters along the way. 

A look at the daily lives of the many varied characters in a single room occupancy (S.R.O.) hotel, told from the perspective of one its residents, an alcoholic writer.

Professional hit man Joe Radcliff is called in to knock off Harlem’s top Black revolutionary, but then is double crossed by the people who hired him. 

A series of essays and musings from one of the greatest urban writers of all time. 

Superspade works to track down a popular Black revolutionary, beating up bad guys and balling beautiful broads along the way.  

A pimp tells his life story.  

Undercover FBI agent Lou King, known within the underground as the infamous “Murder Master”, takes down a crew of mob defectors from the inside.

Shaft is assigned to protect a Senator, solve a major heist and clear his frenemy Ben Buford all in the same case. 

James Rhodes aims to take down a drug dealing syndicate while trying to find out who the dirty cop is on the force that’s feeding the syndicate information to escape the busts. 

A dear friend of the Iceman’s is executed as a result of a shady mining deal.  

Angela Harpe takes a case to find out who murdered an oil company executive and along the way comes across underhanded deals, shady double crosses, sadistic thugs and freakish rich dudes.

The Organization wants vengeance on Radcliff for previously offing several of its members, so they set up a fake job in an effort to take him out.

A collection of boasts, toasts and poems about hustling and street life. 

A complicated love-hate-love story between a man, a woman and her daughter. 

A backwoods Black teen patiently and methodically plots revenge on the hillbillies who savagely raped his sister.  

One of Iceman’s partners from his hometown of Harlem is taken out under mysterious circumstances.  

A tale of a Mack’s exploits and the spectrum of emotions the lifestyle puts him through. 

A collection of supposedly humorous short stories by several authors.  

Two teenagers leave the petty crime life to join a major operation with the numbers man.   

A fictionalized memoir of a Baltimore hustler from his early days as a teenage thug through his attempt at a turnaround. 

A rich man’s daughter is kidnapped and the Dark Angel is roped into working the case.