Riding Dirty on I-95 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780345476845)

Queen of hip hop fiction Nikki Turner follows her gritty, emotionally charged novel The Glamorous Life with this new tale from the hood featuring a beautiful down-on-her-luck sister who can out-hustle the best of them as she rises from the ghetto to glory.

After Mercy's beloved dad is murdered in cold blood on her seventh birthday, her mother gives her up to foster care. But despite an unsavory upbringing, Mercy vows to make something of herself-at all costs.

Working as a concierge at a hotel notorious for its shady clientele, Mercy meets and falls hard for a notorious dealer who keeps her living large in Gucci clothes and off-the-hook apartments. Then she lands a real lucrative deal: running drugs up Interstate 95 from Miami to New York.

But Mercy doesn't want to live the gangsta life forever. She's got bigger dreams. She turns legit and makes her mark, yet despite a new, cleaned-up career, she can't get the streets completely out of her blood. A sexy hustler named C-Note steals her heart. And as their relationship heats up, Mercy discovers that their pasts are hopelessly-and tragically-entwined.

Author: Nikki Turner
ISBN-10: 0345476840
ISBN-13: 9780345476845
Publisher: One World
Language: English
Published: 04/25/2006
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/20/2006 pg. 133
Booklist 03/01/2006 pg. 70
Ebony 05/01/2006 pg. 30