Caroline Woods

Jun 14, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Caroline Woods |Stella Sands |Elisabeth Eaves |Chris W Whitaker

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, with Aaron Philip Clark. Amistad, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-331290-6In rapper 50 Cent’s dynamic fiction debut (after the memoir Hustle Smarter, Hustle Harder), Vietnam-vet-turned-thief Desmond Bell breaks into the oldest bank in Texas and steals $2 million in Spanish gold and a slave manifest implicating the Duchamps, one of the Lone Star State’s wealthiest families, as beneficiaries of the transatlantic slave trade.