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I ´m going to talk about "American Gangster" This book talks about the life of Frank Lucas and spoke of the American mafia, talks about the search for power, and drug trafficking.

Like many such stories, this takes place in the city of New York and its environs during the time of the Vietnam War. Where there is a great diversity of races and cultures, converging together, and also the difference in social classes that persist to this day in many sides. The story begins with the death of Bumpy Johnson, a sort of head of the mafia blacks, where her territory was Harlem in New York, where, despite all be linked to crime and drugs, was developed to a certain point in peace and order, all caused by this character because despite being a boss of the Mafia, remained in control and justice throughout his neighborhood, until the day of his death. And then began a power struggle for control of Harlem, and in part through the streets of New York, between drug traffickers and corrupt police were looking for that power, it is here where the history presents us with our protagonist, Frank Lucas who was the driver and bodyguard of Bumpy Johnson, and not only that, this also was an apprentice of his work as a gangster, and had operated his retail sale of drugs, depending on the Italians who then were dominating the business of the drug, along with the corrupt police, the latter conducted searches of large drug after removing the same security deposits from the police, then diluted to make it more quantity and return it to the streets getting big profits.After he contacted to his half cousin who was in the midst of the war in Vietnam where he find a drug purest state, he got all the money that he had and he travel up there, to buy a first shipment and make arrangements. In a first sent he buy about 100 kg, which was introduced to the United States by way of the same government that had constant mobility of cargoes to their country due of war. After he began to sell the drugs at a lower price and better quality, and put brand "Blue Magic" to distinguish it from others, then brought their relatives who were in other cities to help with the business. Meanwhile in New Jersey, a police officer named Richie, was little loved in your corporation as it wasn´t corrupt, once time he returned close to a million dollars and also he said if his colleagues were corrupt, was wrapped in personal problems divorce and fighting protested the homeland of his son, he was commissioned a special unit for controlling drug, which would be responsible for major drug traffickers as Frank Lucas. At first all of its investigations pointed to other leaders of the Italian Mafia, but quickly began to account of who was the gangster. etc etc... it´s a long novelization but in my opinion, I think that this book is entertaining, and as it is based on real facts leaves us see historical events very interesting and revealing. The plot is simple but surrounds us, the characters are difficult to understand, and I am not identifying with any of them, otherwise I think it is very much like the real-life criminals.