It begins like a typical blaxploitation film of the era, one in which “the injustice of Ghetto Life specifically and Amerika in general had turned a basically good brother toward a life of crime,” only to allow him to escape it after having his revenge in the final reel. When the title comes up in conversation, the characters’ reflexive response becomes a running gag: “The one about the pimp?” But when some of them finally get around to seeing it, they get more than they bargained for. Set in the 1970s, George Pelecanos’s 1997 novel King Suckerman takes its title from a fictional movie the novel’s assorted hustlers, psychos, and accidental criminals spend much of the story intending to watch.
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