Reviewers' Comments:
Paulo and Fixer Man are a couple of gay gangstas. Drugs, forgery, unsafe
sex, even murder is nothing to them. But they are trying to do better as
they use their ill-gotten gains and influence to start a new - legitimate
- career. Jealous ex-lovers, other gangstas, and even pissed-off parole officers
would like nothing better than to take these two and their friends down.
The exploits of a serial killer who is sodomizing and
torturing young boys before killing them comes to the attention of the gangstas
when Paulo sees one of the bodies being dumped. Tracking the killer and turning
the tables on him becomes top priority for them, and the associates whose
help they enlist. But will the opportunity to score an easy fortune create
a rift in the new alliance? Loyalty is rewarded, and revenge is exacted.
An interesting book, Bless the Thugz... blurs
the line between the good and the bad guys. Are these characters to be lauded
for their exploits just because they're queer, or should they be arrested
for the crimes they've committed? The difference between justice and legal
actions and activities is highlighted in numerous instances. The language
of the book itself—street hip hop slang—lends authenticity to the
story.
The reader will have to decide for him/herself whether
Paulo and Fixer Man are heroes or thugs, but will be entertained while doing
so. Word.
— Ravigo Zomana, The Virginia GayZette
Bless the Thugz and Lil' Chil'rins drew me in on page one and
wouldn't release me until I'd finished. Over the past year, fifteen young
boys have been kidnaped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered. When Paulo and
Fixer Man discover who the serial killer is, they take things into their
own hands. After all, who will the police believe, a pair of gay thugz or
a prominent televangelist? It's a great story whose main characters, intelligent
thugz with heart, happened to be gay.
---Deatri King-Bey of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
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Can't Help Lovin' That Gangsta Man
Paulo left his native Venezuela because his family couldn't deal with his
being maricon, and because he saw his young sixteen-year-old cousin
shot by the police for stealing a TV set. Arrived in America, he traded on
his physical looks and became a hustler, small time drug dealer and crook.
His looks and his health are nearly ruined when he meets Antoine, a street-tough
forty-four-year-old black thug with a knack for pulling off bank robberies
and cheque-forging schemes.
Antoine, known as Fixer Man, is wanted for violating
parole and fully expects to be caught and killed one day by the legal and
social system he takes such delight in manipulating for his criminal activities.
That is, if some other crook, crack head or wigged-out greedy business partner
doesn't do it first.
This unlikely pair are the main characters of Fredryk
Traynor's Bless the Thugz And Lil' Chil'rins.
Raised in an atmosphere of distrust, casual violence
and betrayal, these two gangstas find, to their astonishment, a loving connection
to each other. One of the great strengths of the novel is Traynor's portrait
of Paulo and Fixer's tentative affection for each other. Both men have learned
the basic survival skill of looking out only for one's self, of never believing
in anything or anyone, so this unexpected love seems both hope and threat.
Even more shocking, even to these street-toughened men,
is the appearance in dumpsters and alleyways of a series of tortured, mutilated
corpses of children. And, it appears that it may depend on the thugs, dope
dealers, hookers and con men to stop the killings.
Bless the Thugz And the Lil' Chil'rins
re-examines all of our safe notions of justice vs. legality, violence vs.
mercy, and demonstrates how much harm is done in the name of "salvation."
The language (words like nigga and muh'fucka are used
commonly and often with affection) is harsh, vulgar and vivid, reflecting
the rage and frustration that throbs everyday through car stereos and echoes
in the concert halls where rap singers are the new Cassandras speaking their
truth and prophesying the future. Traynor's message would appear to be that
the unlikely is not necessarily the impossible. His skill creates a believable
world of brutality, dark cruelty and nonchalant acceptance of death, but
he also makes us believe that there can exist, even in these conditions,
kindness, caring and family. And that perhaps love can come even to a gangsta
faggot and a badass thug.
— Ralph Higgins, Wayves
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