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Nelson George
Full Series List in Order
A D Hunter Mystery
1 - The Accidental Hunter (Feb-2005)2 - The Plot Against Hip Hop (Nov-2011)
3 - The Lost Treasures of R & B (Feb-2015)
Book List in Order: 14 titles
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Urban Romance
- Jan-1994
- / General Fiction
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Hip music critic Dwayne Robinson has two main gigs: defending rap's rightful place in the music industry and scoring as many women as possible. But this smooth-talking b-boy has yet to try working love into his lingo--until "buppie" Danielle Embry sl...
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Show & Tell
- May-2001
- / Suspense
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A DELICIOUSLY EROTIC TALE ABOUT FOUR PEOPLE ENTANGLED BY LUST, VOYEURISM, AND TECHNOLOGY. Dean Chance is as straight and narrow as a man can be. A segment producer for a popular syndicated talk show, he provides just the right combination of stabilit...
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One Woman Short
- Aug-2001
- / General Fiction
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There were many women in his past. Will one of them become his future? Rodney Hampton, a thirty-three-year-old L.A. native, is a pro at juggling women. He and his best friend, Timothy Waters Jr., spent many years recklessly scoping out honeys at ...
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Night Work
- Jun-2003
- / Suspense
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"In New York City, there are at least three times as many doors as people. I work behind those closed doors. I work in darkness even when the light is on. My name is Night and I do night work." Dark-skinned chocolate, sexy and smooth, Night earns ...
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The Accidental Hunter
- Feb-2005
- / Law Enforcement
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The first assignment is unusual. The second will set D Hunter in urgent pursuit of a mysterious entity that is kidnapping Top Forty hitmakers. Always cloaked in the color black, security specialist D Hunter lives on the periphery of the monied ...
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Post-Soul Nation
- May-2005
- / General Fiction
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One of the foremost chroniclers of the contemporary black experience offers an undeluded perspective on the 1980s. Here are crack, AIDS, and the Reagan rollback of the major advances of the civil rights movement. But Nelson George also shows how blac...
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The Plot Against Hip Hop
- Nov-2011
- / Literary
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The Plot Against Hip Hop is a noir novel set in the world of hip hop culture. The stabbing murder of esteemed music critic Dwayne Robinson in a Soho office building is dismissed by the NYPD as a gang initiation. But his old friend, bodyguard and secu...
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The Lost Treasures of R & B
- Feb-2015
- / Suspense
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Professional bodyguard D Hunter takes a gig protecting rapper Asya Roc at an underground fight club in poverty-stricken Brownsville, Brooklyn. Unknown to D, the rapper has arranged to purchase illegal guns at the event. An acquaintance of D's from th...
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To Funk and Die in LA
- Aug-2017
- / General Fiction
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In this hard-boiled mystery, a Brooklyn bodyguard-turned-P.I. investigates a case involving funk, R&B, and his grandfather’s murder.Ex-bodyguard D Hunter heads to the City of Angels on a very dark mission when his grandfather, businessman Danie...
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To Funk and Die in L.A.
- Sep-2017
- / Suspense
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Series protagonist D Hunter is swept into the City of Angels on a dark mission related to his mysterious grandfather....
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The Darkest Hearts
- Aug-2020
- / General Fiction
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A P.I.-turned-talent manger’s new client leads him into dangerous territory in this hard-boiled novel by the author of To Funk and Die in L.A.Former bodyguard D Hunter has moved to Los Angeles to become a talent manager, and business is good. He ha...
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B-Boys, Buppies, Baps, & Bohos
- Sep-2021
- / General Fiction
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In this new and expanded edition of Nelson George's classic cultural study, contemporary Black culture is chronicled through essays on music, film, sports, publishing, politics, and city life, both uptown and down. Buppies enter nearly every arena of...
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The Death of Rhythm and Blues
From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down," this passionate and provocative book tells the complete story of black music in the last fifty years, and in doing so outlines the perilous position of bla...
