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

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

Terry Williams, Terence T. Williams. Da Capo Press, $16.5 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-201-57003-8

A teenage-populated cocaine distribution ring in New York City's Spanish Harlem is probed by the author, a sociologist, who for almost five years observed its routines. ``Williams proffers no quick solution to the drug crisis, but rather an illumination, in their own words, of damaged urban youth,'' remarked PW , calling this ``a sobering picture of the dangerous, lucrative trade.'' (Sept.)