{"product_id":"antoines-double-trouble-charles-harvey-9781393231110","title":"Antoine's Double Trouble","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntoine Rucker, a young twenty-something Black IT executive leads a double life. During the day, he works for a major insurance company in Downtown Atlanta. On weekend nights, he hustles on the street turning tricks near the infamous \"Bulldogs Bar.\" He's smart, a graduate of Morehouse College and is being groomed as his company's new CIO (Chief Information Officer) What drives him to the streets and into the arms of misfit and wounded men? Will Antoine's sordid nightlife catch up with him? Will he ever get the monkey off his back?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcerpt: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe next morning when I got up to use the restroom, I heard my Mother in the study. I walked to the door and stood watching as she kneeled scrubbing the wall along the baseboards. My stomach quivered. I felt like a little boy caught doing something wrong. She sensed my presence and turned around.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A rat pissed on this wall. Before you leave, I want you to buy some poison and put down some traps. I told John there were rats in this house. But nooo, he didn't believe me. And when he finally saw one, you know what he said?\" She looked at me. I shrugged. \"He said they were God's creatures. If Noah could tolerate two, we can tolerate one.\" She laughed. \"That man was a mess.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe belt lay on top of the desk, where I had left it. Mama continued scrubbing the wall and talking to herself. \"I will not have rats in my house. He would leave me to have to deal with this, do what he should have done when he was alive. Rats pissing all over everything, just like his sisters think they're going to piss all over me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI picked up the belt. \"Why didn't you stop him, Mama?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Oh you know, your Father was as stubborn as ten mules. If that man didn't want to do something, he didn't do it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Not the rats--this.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e She looked at me holding the belt in my hand. \"What are you talking about?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You know what I'm talking about.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMama looked away, dipped her sponge in the bucket, and sloshed sudsy water on the wall. She ignored the mess she made on her pants. \"Put that thing away. Your Father is dead. Let him rest in peace.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGet it Now \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal Title: Boy For Hire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Harvey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 139323111X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781393231110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wes Writers and Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d","brand":"Charles Harvey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46465565065471,"sku":"9781393231110","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_55884a5a-2fc7-429a-8ca1-e0c61b62b9f7.jpg?v=1736346622","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/antoines-double-trouble-charles-harvey-9781393231110","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}