The Syndicate: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 1948596040
- ISBN-13
- 9781948596046
- Series
- The Syndicate
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-06-15
- Authors
- Jr., Clarence Cooper
Description
Lost crime classic from Clarence Cooper, Jr., a crime writer from Detroit whose first novel, The Scene, was a literary sensation. Believed to be too raw, and possibly damaging to his literary career, The Syndicate was published under pseudonymn in 1960, a hard-hitting, fast-paced story plunging into the psycho-sexual depths of a ruthless white enforcer sent to retrieve syndicate money. Cooper¿s subsequent work fell into pulp oblivion."One of the most underrated writers in America, a Richard Wright of the revolutionary era." Black World/Negro Digest "The man who should have been the black William Burroughs." GQCooper is a rare figure in crime fiction, a writer whose work¿though always transgressive and fatalistic in its view¿ranged from narrative-driven noir to more experimental forms, provoking comparision to writers as varied as Burroughs and Jim Thompson. "Not even Nelson Algren¿s Man with the Golden Arm burned with [this] ferocious actuality". New York Herald-TribuneFirst U. S. Publication under the author¿s real name, with an afterward by Gary Phillips (The Obama Inheritance), including biographical material on Cooper, childhood friend of Malcolm X. Cooper struggled with heroin addiction most of his life, did much of his writing in jail and died on a New York street at the age of 44, alone and strung out, not far from his last known residence: the 23rd Street YMCA.
