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  The long-awaited True to the Game IV arrives nineteen years after the last franchise installment with Quadir and Gena barely newlyweds before they're violently kidnapped, separated, and hunted across two continents by the FBI and a ruthless Italian crime family while their Philadelphia world burns to the ground. The game never stopped—it just got deadlier. Before Empire ruled primetime, before Power owned cable, before The Wire became required viewing, there was True to the Game, a novel Teri Woods wrote as a legal secretary, self-published from the trunk of her car, and sold hand-to-hand on the streets of New York and Philadelphia until it became one of the most beloved and influential works of urban fiction ever written. Alongside Sister Souljah's The Coldest Winter Ever, Donald Goines, and Iceberg Slim, Woods helped build a commercial fiction genre that spoke directly to millions of readers that mainstream publishing had long ignored—and proved, years before the market caught up, that those readers would show up in massive numbers for stories that reflected their world with honesty, intimacy, and cinematic force. True to the Game IV is the long-awaited return to that world. Nineteen years after the trilogy concluded with back-to-back New York Times bestsellers, Woods brings back Quadir Richards and Gena Scott, the genre's most iconic couple, at the worst possible moment. They are barely newlyweds when their honeymoon in Turks and Caicos is violently interrupted and the two are separated across the Atlantic. Quadir finds himself a prisoner on a luxury yacht off the Amalfi Coast, trapped between a Colombian cartel boss and the FBI who have already ensnared his mother and the woman who once saved his life. Gena wakes up in Palermo with nothing—no passport, no phone, no memory of who she is—and must fight to stay alive in a city where a powerful crime family has put a bounty on her head. Back in Philadelphia, the family that raised her is unraveling: arrests, funerals, secrets buried twenty years finally breaking to the surface. This is Teri Woods writing at the full scope of her talent. True to the Game IV is a multi-generational crime epic that moves from 1970s North Philadelphia to the sun-scorched cliffs of Southern Italy, and braids together a love story, a family saga, a legal thriller, and a street narrative with the propulsive, chapter-turning momentum that made the original series a cultural phenomenon. The bones of True to the Game IV are those of prestige television: morally complex characters, interconnected storylines across decades, law enforcement corruption at the highest levels, and at its center a Black woman whose survival instinct and capacity for love are equally ferocious. In a landscape where Power, Snowfall, and BMF have demonstrated that urban crime narratives command massive audiences, True to the Game arrives as one of the few franchises in the genre with a proven readership, a built-in mythology, and source material rich enough to sustain a long-form series.

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  • Kustantaja / Valmistaja HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • ISBN 9780063470774
  • Vuosi 2027
  • Tuotekoodi 9780063470774
  • Leveys (mm) 152
  • Pituus (mm) 229
  • Kieli Englanti
  • Alanimike A True to the Game Novel
  • Kirjoittajat Teri Woods
  • Sivumäärä 320
  • Sarja True to the Game
  • Paino (g) 454
  • Tuotelinja Kirjat
  • Tuoteryhmä Ulk muut kaunokirjat
  • Tuotemuoto Kovakantinen
  • Ilmestymispäivä 29.07.2027
  • Tuotepääryhmä Ulkomaiset kaunokirjat
  • Tuoteturvallisuusyhteystiedot HarperCollins Publishers, enquiries@harpercollins.ie, Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper, Dublin 1, D01 C9W8, D01 C9W8, Dublin
  • Thema-luokitus Moderni kirjallisuus ja nykykirjallisuus
  • ALV 13,5%

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