Hood: An Urban Erotic Tale

Noire

Aug 2007 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

From a rough childhood to the number one spot in one of Brooklyn’s most lucrative drug empires, Lamont Mason has learned one lesson: “Ain't no need in looking over your shoulder in this game. Because your real enemies ain't aiming at your back. They lunging straight for your heart.”

Lamont "Hood" Mason is a fearless nineteen-year-old gangsta who was born and raised in the projects of Brooklyn, New York. He was an abandoned child who roamed the cold city streets and fought hard for survival. The only thing constant in his young life was the safety of a Brownsville barbershop owned by a father figure called Fat Daddy.

The barbershop is where Hood comes of age, but cutting hair isn't the only thing Fat Daddy has going on. His daughter, Egypt, is the love of Hood's young life, and the one person whose dreams of a stable future can lead him off the grimy urban corners and out of the hustling life.

But when Fat Daddy gets caught slippin’ and crosses paths with Xanbar, a notoriously brutal drug kingpin, his vices threaten to bring death down on the family Hood loves. In an effort to protect his own, Hood and his best friend and hustling partner, Dreko, take to the streets on a bloody mission that doesn't go exactly as planned. Hood returns to find his world turned upside down by a wave of sex, violence, and betrayal. No longer the starving kid on the street, he's now a man seeking vengeance and retribution, and he might be forced to choose between bending or breaking as he picks up the shattered pieces of his life, one by one.

Ratings and reviews

This book was a great book. Kind of hurt me to my heart how Egypt ended up. But thankfully Hood gave her a way yo help herself, thanks to Mrs. Baker, she became clean and got herself and her life back on track.

This book is REAL. If you grew up in the hood, involved in the streets, live that life or surrounded by people who live that life, you can relate to EVERYTHING. I cried the first time I read it. This sh*t was too deep. I recommend it to anybody.

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About the author

Noire is the originator of the urban erotic genre and the #1 Essence bestselling author of more than thirty books, including G-Spot, Candy Licker, Baby Brother, G-Spot, Thug-A-Licious, as well as The Misadventures of Mink LaRue series and the Sexy Little Liars series.