Original Gangster: The Real Life Story Of One Of America'S Most Notorious Drug Lords book by Frank Lucas 

Seven years of Lucas' life were dramatised for the recent film American Gangster, but this is the first time that the mythic figure depicted in the film tells the story himself. The book delves further into the story of Lucas and shows just what a folk hero he is to contemporary urban audiences. Told in the first person to acclaimed journalist TK, Original Gangster is a brutally honest account of a gangster and his times.

Lucas' story is a modern fable, and Lucas a mythical figure within it.