{"product_id":"the-overlooked-corey-mack-9798255910793","title":"The Overlooked","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Overlooked\u003c\/b\u003e is a powerful, layered urban crime novel about ambition, invisibility, power, survival, and the cost of becoming the man nobody saw coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCody was never the popular kid. He was never the loudest in the room, never the one girls chased, never the one the streets embraced right away. He lived on the sidelines, watching everything-studying people, reading rooms, learning how power really moved while everybody else was distracted by image, reputation, and attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut being overlooked gave Cody something other people never had.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTime to think.\u003cbr\u003eTime to learn.\u003cbr\u003eTime to build.\u003cbr\u003eTime to become dangerous without interruption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter prison puts him in the path of a respected hometown dealer known as Funny Man, Cody gets his first real education in the world of cocaine, cash, pressure, and hidden systems. When Funny Man goes down, Cody steps into the vacuum and begins building a quiet but highly profitable operation, serving a suburban market full of people with good jobs, good houses, and private habits they would rather keep buried in the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Cody is not just another street hustler.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile making money in the shadows, he is also studying business, economics, accounting, and marketing-teaching himself how real power works. By day, he builds legitimate companies and learns how to move in the world of paper, structure, and respectability. By night, he controls a hidden empire built on discipline, timing, and silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of it all is Kelsey, the girl who lived across the street-the one Cody loved quietly for years, the one who represents the clean life he could never fully reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Overlooked\u003c\/b\u003e is not a simple street novel. It is a deep, emotional, and intelligent story about race, class, loneliness, masculinity, ambition, and the psychology of being underestimated. It is about what happens when the quiet one outthinks everyone, when the invisible man becomes powerful, and when the bad guy does not lose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this story, the overlooked do not disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey rise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Corey Mack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798255910793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 612\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.24d","brand":"Corey Mack","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665430679807,"sku":"9798255910793","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-overlooked-corey-mack-9798255910793","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}