The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir

D. Watkins

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The hotly anticipated memoir of D. Watkins, chronicling his teen life and rise as a drug dealer in East Baltimore - and the experiences that led him to change his path.

ISBN 9781455537266
List price $16.99
Publisher Grand Central Publishing
Year of publication 2017
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