Author Spotlight: Mo' Dirty by Darrell King

Peter Whiskey Battle is a 24-year-old enforcer for Peola, Georgia’s Bad Boyz II Syndicate, a dangerous street gang controlling the lion’s share of illicit narcotics coming into the bustling port of Savannah. After murdering two local snitches for David Ambrosia, the suave, smooth-talking leader of the syndicate and Whiskey’s best friend, he is given an offer he can’t refuse.She struggles to come to terms with her failing marriage and her sick mother as she watches her chance at a happy home with children slip away. Her two childhood girlfriends offer help and support but they have their own personal struggles. The old saying, “what’s done in the dark will eventually comes to light” has never been more true.

When tragedy strikes, Maxine will have to make the most important decision of her life. But will the lies and secrets her husband and friends harbor bring Maxine’s life crashing down around her?


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Darrell King has been writing ever since the age of eight. His first published work of fiction was penned during the fall of 1976 as a student of Mary Field’s Elementary School on South Carolina’s Daufuskie Island. This effort, an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” was both written and illustrated by Mr. King and was published in the school’s quarterly periodical, “The Daufuskie Kid’s Magazine.” Mr. King went on to write several unpublished stories and numerous poems, several of which were published in the 1995-1996 “Poetry Anthology” by the National Library of Poetry in Owings Mills, Maryland.


During the 90s, Mr. King was attracted to and inspired by the lurid tales of inner city crime and drama that he read on the pages of novels by great writers such as Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim. This, coupled with an enduring appreciation for the hard-edged, yet enlightened lyric of the era’s gangsta rap icons like Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Easy E and others prompted Mr. King to begin writing his very own stories of urban crime and inner city drama.


Mr. King resides in Washington, DC.


To find out more about Darrell or to learn more about Mo’ Dirty visit http://community.essence.com/profile/Darrell King or http://modirty.blogspot.com.

Tomorrow, Darrell will be visiting As the Pages Turn at http://asthepagesturn.wordpress.com/ 

Spotlight on Darrell King

About the book:

Peola's famous top cop, Police Chief Mickey O'Malley vows to assist Daufuskie Island's fledgling police force with training and recruiting to crack down on the sea island's rising drug trade. O'Malley's success as a police chief is well documented in Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, and Peola Counties, where his hard-edged, highly unorthodox style is policing has brought both praise and criticism his way.

"The controversial police chief stated, 'Criminals are criminals. It doesn't matter whether they're punk kids vandalizing churches with spray paint, or millionaire drug cartels flying coke into our country from Colombia. They're all scum to me, and their crimes can't be tolerated for any reason. I live to lock these animals up and see to it that they're taken off the streets for a helluva long time, 'cause I don't want 'em in my town, my state, my region, or in my country. Period."

About the author:

During the 90's, Darrell was attracted to and inspired by the lurid tales of inner city crime and drama that he read on the pages of novels by great writers such as Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim. This prompted Darrell to begin writing his very own stories of urban crime and inner city drama.

Darrell resides in Prince George's County, Maryland with his wife, Sonya, and their five children. He is also the author of "Dirty South".


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