Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: American Gangster (TV series), Azie Faison, Black Mafia, Bumpy Johnson, Casper Holstein, Chambers Brothers (gang), David Barksdale, Demetrius Flenory, Felix Mitchell, Frank Lucas, Frank Matthews (drug trafficker), Guy Fisher, Hakeem Abdul-Shaheed, Howard Mason, Jeff Fort, Kenneth McGriff, Leroy Barnes, Melvin Williams (actor), Rayful Edmond, Stephanie St. Clair, Theodore Roe, Wallace Rice (gangster), Young Boys Inc.. Excerpt: Frank Lucas (born September 9, 1930) is a former U.S. heroin dealer and organized crime boss who operated in Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was particularly known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in the Golden Triangle. Lucas boasted that he smuggled heroin using the coffins of dead American servicemen, but this claim is denied by his South East Asian associate, Leslie "Ike" Atkinson. Rather than hide the drugs in the coffins they were hidden in the pallets underneath as depicted in the movie. His career was depicted in the 2007 feature film American Gangster in which he was played by Denzel Washington, although the film fictionalized elements of Lucas' life for dramatic effect. Lucas was born in La Grange, North Carolina and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. He claims that the incident that sparked his motivation to embark on a life of crime was witnessing his 12-year-old cousin's murder at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, for apparently "reckless eyeballing" (looking at) a Caucasian woman, in Greensboro. He drifted through a life of petty crime until one particular occasion when, after a fight with a former employer, he fled to New York on the advice of his mother. In Harlem, he indulged in petty crime and pool hustling before he was taken under the wing of gangster Bumpy Johnson. Lucas' connection to Johnson has...