Kenyatta Series in Order: 5 books


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    Book - 1

    Goines' powerful first novel lays bare the bloody, brutal world of crime in the black ghetto, where, as Goines put it, "kindness was the sweetest con of all." Here is the gusty and often shocking world of Billy and Jackie, prison buddies on the stree...



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    Book - 2

    Young Curtis Carson doesn’t mean to rip off the Chicanos in his backyard crap games. He just rolls the dice better. But the Chicanos don’t see it that way, and when one of their brothers is brutally slaughtered in a barroom shootout because of Cu...



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    Book - 3

    The unquestioned originator of urban lit, Donald Goines ups the reality factor with one of his most enduring characters…

    Kenyatta has it good. He’s got the ladies, the clubs, the guns. The only problem is the shady dealers who are running...



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    Book - 4

    Kenyatta had two ambitions: cleaning the ghetto of all drug traffic and gunning down all the racist white cops! But a black and white detective team, Benson and Ryan, is on his tail and has discovered the location of his army's camp. Armed with tanks...



  • Book - 5

     “The voice of the ghetto itself.” —The Village Voice

    The godfather of urban lit is back with the graphic, thrilling conclusion to Kenyatta’s quest to reclaim his streets…

    For Kenyatta, the living u...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

There are 5 books in the Kenyatta series.

The Kenyatta series does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Kenyatta's Last Hit (Book 5), was published in June 1975.

The first book in the Kenyatta series, Crime Partners, was published in January 1974.

The Kenyatta series primarily falls into the Action Adventure genre.