Characters
Derek Strange is an ex-cop and current private investigator. He is recently married to his secretary Janine and lives with her and her son, Lionel. Strange is working on gathering evidence for the defence of drug trafficker Granville Oliver and is searching for a young woman named Devra Stokes.
Dewayne Durham is a notorious drug dealer and controls his own small organization. Durham's right hand man is Bernard "Zulu" Walker. His drug dealers include Jerome Long aka Nutjob and Alante Jones aka Lil J. Dewayne's older brother Mario commands none of the same respect and is eager to prove himself. Mario is searching for Olivia Elliot who recently stole from him. Mario associates with Donut, a sometime drug dealer who frequently sells fake narcotics.
Horace McKinley has inherited some of Oliver's drug trade and is a rival to Durham. His drug dealing crew includes Michael Montgomery and the volatile young Coates cousins, James and Jeremy. Both McKinley and Durham use the same out of town gun dealer for their weapons, a retired police officer called Ulysses Foreman. Foreman lives with his girlfriend Ashley Swann.
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“There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
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—Jane Smiley (b. 1949)
“Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)