Bøker av Frank Lucas

Are you curious about how your life might look in twenty years?Interweaving two decennia back and forth, building on his own cosmopolitanexperiences, Frank Lucas identifies trends which will directly impact him in thelast quarter of his life. International relations, demographic changes, migration,technology developments and climatic disruptions will change our lifestyles andimpact all of us in different ways. Throughout this accessible narrative, the authorexplores the interrelationships of these themes and the impact these will have onhis way of life in the next twenty years. Despite recent global crises and no doubtfuture events, which we do not know about yet, his view on the next two decadesis positive and uplifting, building on his experience that people are resilient and willcontinue to improve the lives of ever more people on our earth. In his third book heoutlines his view on his own and no doubt your lifestyle in the next two decades.

Criminals are not born in a vacuum, and Frank Lucas is no exception. At the age of six he watched his cousin die in a lynching and in that moment of Southern brutality, Frank Lucas, notorious gangster, billion-dollar-heroin importer and true-life inspiration for the film American Gangster was born.Original Gangster is the story of the most notorious black gangster to ever rule the streets of New York. He went from running numbers in the 50s, to importing millions of dollars of heroin in the 70s, before losing it all at the hands of a snitch. This is the ultimate tale of ambition, hubris and downfall. The original O.G., Lucas has gone down in history for his infamous business measure of cutting out middlemen in the drug trade, buying heroin directly from its source in Southeast Asia, and then smuggling it back in the coffins of dead US servicemen. Seven years of Lucas' life were dramatised for the Hollywood blockbuster American Gangster, but this is the first time that the mythical figure tells the story himself. The book delves even further into his extraordinary story, showing just what a folk hero Lucas is to contemporary urban audiences. It's a brutally honest account of a gangster and his times.