The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring

The Cocaine Kids by Terry Williams

Terry Williams has written other books about drug circles and how they affect the people and the neighborhoods they are in. this is the only book I have read by him. I think the point of this book was to show that most people in the illegal drug trade are only doing it to get by and most of them are pretty young. The theme of the book was that things can always get better even when you hit rock bottom.

Cocaine Kids follows a group of kids in New York who sell crack and cocaine. In the book he tells about the different phases of the drug trade from the introduction of crack to fall of cocaine. The book also tells how and why they got into dealing drugs and what they have experienced and what their goals are afterward. Everyone in the book knows that they can’t deal forever and as they get older they experience more things that prove that dealing is a short term job.

I liked the book it puts a different perspective on something a lot of people know little about and may be one of the only books that does it. I would recommend this book to anyone it is just interesting. You start to get attached to the group and you feel sad when the book is over but you get happy that they all were able to get legitimate jobs and stop dealing drugs.

Book Review by Chris Z.