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The real enemy" is the totality of physical and mental constraints by which capital, or class society, or statism, or the society of the spectacle expropriates everyday life, the time of our lives. The real enemy is not an object apart from life. It is the organization of life by powers detached from it and turned against it. The apparatus, not its personnel, is the real enemy. But it is by and through the apparatchiks and everyone else participating in the system that domination and deception are made manifest. The totality is the organization of all against each and each against all. It includes all the policemen, all the social workers, all the office workers, all the nuns, all the op-ed columnists, all the drug kingpins from Medellin to Upjohn, all the syndicalists and all the situationists.
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Bob Black (The Abolition of Work and Other Essays)
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There are blondes and blondes and it is almost a joke word nowadays. All blondes have their points, except perhaps the metallic ones who are as blond as a Zulu under the bleach and as to disposition as soft as a sidewalk. There is the small cute blonde who cheeps and twitters, and the big statuesque blonde who straight-arms you with an ice-blue glare. There is the blonde who gives you the up-from-under look and smells lovely and shimmers and hangs on your arm and is always very tired when you take her home. She makes that helpless gesture and has that goddamned headache and you would like to slug her except that you are glad you found out about the headache before you invested too much time and money and hope in her. Because the headache will always be there, a weapon that never wears out and is as deadly as the bravo’s rapier or Lucrezia’s poison vial. There is the soft and willing and alcoholic blonde who doesn’t care what she wears as long as it is mink or where she goes as long as it is the Starlight Roof and there is plenty of dry champagne. There is the small perky blonde who is a little pal and wants to pay her own way and is full of sunshine and common sense and knows judo from the ground up and can toss a truck driver over her shoulder without missing more than one sentence out of the editorial in the Saturday Review. There is the pale, pale blonde with anemia of some non-fatal but incurable type. She is very languid and very shadowy and she speaks softly out of nowhere and you can’t lay a finger on her because in the first place you don’t want to and in the second place she is reading The Waste Land or Dante in the original, or Kafka or Kierkegaard or studying Provençal. She adores music and when the New York Philharmonic is playing Hindemith she can tell you which one of the six bass viols came in a quarter of a beat too late. I hear Toscanini can also. That makes two of them. And lastly there is the gorgeous show piece who will outlast three kingpin racketeers and then marry a couple of millionaires at a million a head and end up with a pale rose villa at Cap Antibes, an Alfa-Romeo town car complete with pilot and co-pilot, and a stable of shopworn aristocrats, all of whom she will treat with the affectionate absent-mindedness of an elderly duke saying goodnight to his butler.
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Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6))
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It was a nice piece of work, Kingpin. You shouldn't have signed it.
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Frank Miller (Daredevil: Born Again)
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In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Nature
Just because you shit fruit
Don't think you're the Kingpin of the World
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Jack Kerouac (Some of the Dharma)
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Case had always taken it for granted that the real bosses, the kingpins in a given industry, would be both more and less than people.
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William Gibson (Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1))
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I have shown him that a man without hope is a man without fear.
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Frank Miller (Daredevil: Born Again)
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Most people go through life thinking that tomorrow they’re going to do something great. Tomorrow will be the day that they wake up and discover what they were put on this earth to do. But then tomorrow comes—and goes. As does the next day. Before long, they realize that there aren’t that many tomorrows left.
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Nick Bilton (American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road)
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You forget that every fallen angel was once an angel themselves. Monsters don’t really want to be monsters. We’re just like everyone else, waiting for someone to come save us from our very own damned darkness.
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J.L. Beck (Indebted (A Kingpin Love Affair, #1))
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Nothing is wrong. It’s merely what you think is right and wrong that has you confused.
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J.L. Beck (Indebted (A Kingpin Love Affair, #1))
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In recent years, some of the biggest new drug kingpins can't be successfully prosecuted. The Pablo Escobars of today are coming out of China, and they don't have to worry about being imprisoned by their government. They can operate free and in the clear, within the boundaries of their country's own laws. Whenever a deadly new drug is made illegal in China, manufacturers simply tweak its chemical structure and start producing a new drug that is still legal. Many fentanyl analogues and cannabinoids have been made this way.
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Ben Westhoff (Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic)
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Fauci generation”—children born after his elevation to NIAID kingpin in 1984— the sickest generation in American history, and has made Americans among the least healthy citizens on the planet. His obsequious subservience to the Big Ag, Big Food, and pharmaceutical companies has left our children drowning in a toxic soup of pesticide residues, corn syrup, and processed foods, while also serving as pincushions for 69 mandated vaccine doses by age 18—none of them properly safety tested.55
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health)
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KANAYA: Karkat What Is He Doing Here
KARKAT: WOW, GREAT QUESTION!
KARKAT: WHY DON'T YOU TAKE A FUCKING NUMBER AND GET IN LINE FOR THAT ONE!!!
KARKAT: I'VE ALREADY GOT MINE! IT'S THE FIRST NUMBER THERE IS. AN ANGRY, TREMBLING DIGIT, TOWERING AND ERECT, POINTING DIRECTLY AT THE TRASHFACED KINGPIN OF INEXPLICABLE HORSESHIT HIMSELF, *GOD*!!!!!
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Andrew Hussie (Homestuck)
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Slick pimps, bribing civic kingpins, distill gin in stills, spiking drinks with illicit pills which might bring bliss.
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Christian Bök (Eunoia)
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There was something kind of nice about operating out of the safe house—it was basic and simple, like camping for kingpins.
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Karina Halle (Dirty Angels (Dirty Angels, #1))
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He just hoped to kill them without his wife noticing. A stack of dead bodies would be a terrible way to start a honeymoon, when your bride thought you were “kind” and “gentle.
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Cassandra Gannon (The Kingpin of Camelot (A Kinda Fairytale, #3))
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While most ‘pinheads’ do indeed begin with a casually acquired flashy novelty pin, followed by the contents of their grandmothers’ pincushion, haha, the path to a truly worthwhile collection lies not in the simple disbursement of money in the nearest pin emporium, oh no. Any dilettante can become ‘kingpin’ with enough expenditure, but for the true ‘pinhead’ the real pleasure is in the joy of the chase, the pin fairs, the house clearances, and, who knows, a casual glint in the gutter that turns out to be a well-preserved Doublefast or an unbroken two-pointer. Well is it said: ‘See a pin and pick it up, and all day long you’ll have a pin.
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Terry Pratchett (Going Postal (Discworld, #33))
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Case had always taken it for granted that the real bosses, the kingpins in a given industry, would be both more and less than people... He'd seen it in the men who'd crippled him in Memphis, he'd seen Wage affect the semblance of it in Night City, and it had allowed him to accept Armitrage's flatness and lack of feeling. He'd always imagined it as a gradual and willing accommodation of the machine, the system, the parent organism. It was the root of street cool, too, the knowing posture that implied connection, invisible lines up to hidden levels of influence.
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William Gibson (Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1))
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But, someone told me that you’re a kind, gentle, and honorable man. That I should come here and you’d help me. Midas squinted. “Were they taking drugs at the time?
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Cassandra Gannon (The Kingpin of Camelot (A Kinda Fairytale, #3))
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ghosts came chasing, lurking in the darkness of our minds.
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Eva Winners (Villainous Kingpin (Kingpins of the Syndicate #1))
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Our spirit animals were all of the genus American Kingpin Tragically Slain in His Prime. Our parents learned English from the Beatles, but we learned from Biggie.
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Anthony Marra (The Tsar of Love and Techno)
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(Marvel belongs to Disney, DC to Time Warner) that are the kingpins of superhero comics.
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Douglas Wolk (Comic-Con Strikes Again!)
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His father is hinky, she said with a sigh. And by hinky she meant a drug kingpin.
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Chelsea Cain (Kill You Twice (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #5))
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You type lines of code into a computer, and out comes a world that didn’t exist before. There are no laws here except your laws. You decide who is given power and who is not. And then you wake up one morning and you’re not you anymore. You’re one of the most notorious drug dealers alive. And now you’re deciding if someone should live or die. You’re the judge in your own court. You’re god.
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Nick Bilton (American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road)
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Several officers had stopped by to ask about Day, all of them avoided mentioning God’s psychotic threats against the kingpin. Hell, if his coworkers weren’t afraid of him before then, they sure as fuck were now. Day
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A.E. Via (Nothing Special)
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I wake up horny in the middle of the night? You’ll wake with my cock in your pussy,” he continues. “You’re doing the laundry and looking hot? I’ll bend you over the washing machine. You don’t say no. You don’t complain. I don’t ask. I just take.
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Evie Rose (Eager Housewife (Filthy Scottish Kingpins, #2))
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Even though all these people were dealing in illicit activities, they each had a moral sense that their particular outlawed product was more just than another.
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Nick Bilton (American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road)
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Over time he learned that the way to have a leg up on everyone else was to anticipate something before it happened and then have the answer to it.
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Nick Bilton (American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road)
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Look around, Dollface. Make those ovaries light up. I want them to shine the bat signal for my boys.
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Alexa Riley (Kingpin (Breeding, #4))
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Missed you too,’ he murmured against my skin, the indents where his teeth had pierced my flesh humming with a pleasant pain.
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Lili St. Germain (Kingpin (Cartel, #2))
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kevinelliott3@gmail.com
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Vol 2: A story of Love, Deceit, Revenge and Murder (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2))
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Gwen mentally cursed her dead husband for his continuous and unrelenting stupidity.
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Cassandra Gannon (The Kingpin of Camelot (A Kinda Fairytale, #3))
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Gwen glowered at them, irritated by their lack of enthusiasm for her villainy.
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Cassandra Gannon (The Kingpin of Camelot (A Kinda Fairytale, #3))
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You’re really not sucking at this so far.” “Thank you. I appreciate feedback, too. Especially when it’s positive.
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Cassandra Gannon (The Kingpin of Camelot (A Kinda Fairytale, #3))
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I'm an emotional fucking fortress. I only feel what I want to feel, and not a damn thing more.
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Meghan March (Creole Kingpin (The Magnolia Duet, #1))
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Gwen stood there for a beat, breathing hard. “See how much simpler it is if you aim for the head?” Midas demanded.
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Cassandra Gannon (The Kingpin of Camelot (A Kinda Fairytale, #3))
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Like people who smoke a joint with someone to make sure that person isn’t a cop. Or a hooker who asks her john, “Are you a cop? You know you have to tell me if you are.
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Kevin Poulsen (Kingpin: The true story of Max Butler, the master hacker who ran a billion dollar cyber crime network)
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I glare at him, willing ice daggers to come out of my eyes and stab him.
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J.L. Beck (Indebted (A Kingpin Love Affair, #1))
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I want to be proud that she has a backbone, but I also want to break it, snapping it into itty-bitty pieces.
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J.L. Beck (Indebted (A Kingpin Love Affair, #1))
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I’m like the monster that hides under your bed, waiting till the moment your breath evens out, and your eyes close to attack.
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J.L. Beck (Indebted (A Kingpin Love Affair, #1))
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The fucking nerve of these people! Luccio deserved to die. He was going to kill me, so it was either him or me. When it comes down to a bullet, I will always choose to put one in the other person.
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J.L. Beck (Indebted (A Kingpin Love Affair, #1))
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A strapping stable boy.” “I have no idea what that even means. It sounds like a word women use to describe men when they don’t want the men to understand what they’re saying.” Which was… intriguing.
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Cassandra Gannon (The Kingpin of Camelot (A Kinda Fairytale, #3))
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If an issue is of importance to one party, they can request the second party’s assistance, collaboration, or focus on said issue. The second party will do his/her best to accommodate them without whining.
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Cassandra Gannon (The Kingpin of Camelot (A Kinda Fairytale, #3))
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What he needed was a place where he could be on his laptop for eighteen hours a day and no one would question why he was being antisocial or what he was working on. Which meant he had to go to San Francisco.
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Nick Bilton (American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road)
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Ziggy is in front of the tube, as if nothing much has been happening in his day, watching Scooby Goes Latin! (1990). Maxine after a quick visit to the bathroom to reformat, knowing better than to start in with the Q&A, comes in and sits down next to him about the time it breaks for a commercial. “Hi, Mom.” She wants to enfold him forever. Instead lets him recap the plot for her. Shaggy, somehow allowed to drive the van, has become confused and made some navigational errors, landing the adventurous quintet eventually in Medellín, Colombia, home at the time to a notorious cocaine cartel, where they stumble onto a scheme by a rogue DEA agent to gain control of the cartel by pretending to be the ghost—what else—of an assassinated drug kingpin. With the help of a pack of local street urchins, however, Scooby and his pals foil the plan.
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Thomas Pynchon (Bleeding Edge)
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As she came to a close, she looked at Ross and said, “What is clear is that people are very, very complex and you are one of them. There is good in you, Mr. Ulbricht, I have no doubt, but there is also bad, and what you did in connection with Silk Road was terribly destructive to our social fabric.
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Nick Bilton (American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web)
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Gwen accepted the explanation, moving onto the doll battle. “Hey, what happened to Clarissa of the Clouds?” Trystan seemed eager not to discuss the gryphons’ language. “She is now a dead decapitated zombie.” He delivered the news with a pitiless smirk. “Demonica Rex will soon eat her bones.” “Bitch.” Gwen muttered, flashing Demonica Rex a glower.
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Cassandra Gannon (The Kingpin of Camelot (A Kinda Fairytale, #3))
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When you go back to Pablo Ecobar, this guy blew up a passenger plane, police headquarters, funded guerrillas to kill Supreme Court justices, and had the number one Colombian presidential candidate assassinated. Now there is no organization in Colombia that can go toe-to-toe with the government, that can threaten the national security of Colombia. In each successive generation of traffickers there has been a dilution of their power.
“Pablo Escobar lasted fifteen years. The average kingpin here now lasts fifteen months. If you are named as a kingpin here, you are gone. The government of Colombia and the government of the United States will not allow a trafficker to exist long enough to become a viable threat.”
In this analysis, drug enforcement can be seen as a giant hammer that keeps on falling. Any gangster that gets too big gets smashed by the hammer. This is known as cartel decapitation, taking out the heads of the gang. The villains are kept in check. But the drug trade does go on, and so does the war.
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Ioan Grillo (El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency)
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As he looked around the computer, he realized the PC was acting as the back-end system for the point-of-sale terminals at the restaurant—it collected the day’s credit card transactions and sent them in a single batch every night to the credit card processor. Max found that day’s batch stored as a plain text file, with the full magstripe of every customer card recorded inside. Even better, the system was still storing all the previous batch files, dating back to when the pizza parlor had installed the system about three years earlier.
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Kevin Poulsen (Kingpin: The true story of Max Butler, the master hacker who ran a billion dollar cyber crime network)
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Each and every day, as we navigate the real world, we leave a billion little fingerprints in our wake. The door handles we touch, the screens we press, and the people we interact with all capture a trace of our being there. The same is true on the Internet. We share pictures and videos on social networks, leave comments on news articles. We e-mail, text, and chat with hundreds of people throughout the day. If there is anyone who left more of those digital fingerprints lying around the Internet than most people, it was Ross Ulbricht. He spent years living on his computer and interacting with people, good and bad, through that machine. Over the course of my research for this book, I was able to gain access to more than two million words of chat logs and messages between the Dread Pirate Roberts and dozens of his employees. These logs were excruciatingly in-depth conversations about every moment and every decision that went into creating and managing the Silk Road.
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Nick Bilton (American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road)
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If I had lied to the CIA, perhaps I might have passed a test. Instead of writing a book about the White House, I’d be poisoning a drug kingpin with a dart gun concealed inside a slightly larger dart gun, or making love to a breathy supermodel in the interest of national security. I’ll never know. I confessed to smoking pot two months before. The sunniness vanished from my interviewer’s voice. “Normally we like people who break the rules,” Skipper told me, “but we can’t consider anyone who’s used illegal substances in the past twelve months.” Just like that, my career as a terrorist hunter was over. I thought my yearning for higher purpose would vanish with my CIA dreams, the way a Styrofoam container follows last night’s Chinese food into the trash. To my surprise, it stuck around. In the weeks that followed, I pictured myself in all sorts of identities: hipster, world traveler, banker, white guy who plays blues guitar. But these personas were like jeans a half size too small. Trying them on gave me an uncomfortable gut feeling and put my flaws on full display. My search for replacement selves began in November. By New Year’s Eve I was mired in the kind of existential funk that leads people to find Jesus, or the Paleo diet, or Ayn Rand. Instead, on January 3, I found a candidate. I was on an airplane when I discovered him, preparing for our initial descent into JFK. This was during the early days of live in-flight television, and I was halfway between the Home Shopping Network and one of the lesser ESPNs when I stumbled across coverage of a campaign rally in Iowa. Apparently, a caucus had just finished. Speeches were about to begin. With nothing better to occupy my time, I confirmed that my seat belt was fully fastened. I made sure my tray table was locked. Then, with the arena shrunk to fit my tiny seatback screen, I watched a two-inch-tall guy declare victory. It’s not like I hadn’t heard about Barack Obama. I had heard his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention. His presidential campaign had energized my more earnest friends. But I was far too mature to take them seriously. They supported someone with the middle name Hussein to be president of the United States. While they were at it, why not cast a ballot for the Tooth Fairy? Why not nominate Whoopi Goldberg for pope?
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David Litt (Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years)
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Democracy, the apple of the eye of modern western society, flies the flag of equality, tolerance, and the right of its weaker members to defense and protection. The flag bearers for children's rights adhere to these same values. But should democracy bring about the invalidation of parental authority? Does democracy mean total freedom for children? Is it possible that in the name of democracy, parents are no longer allowed to say no to their children or to punish them? The belief that punishment is harmful to children has long been a part of our culture. It affects each and every one of us and penetrates our awareness via the movies we see and the books we read. It is a concept that has become a kingpin of modern society and helps form the media's attitudes toward parenting, as well as influencing legislation and courtroom decisions. In recent years, the children's rights movement has enjoyed enormous momentum and among the current generation, this movement has become pivotal and is stronger than ever before. Educational systems are embracing psychological concepts in which stern approaches and firm discipline during childhood are said to create emotional problems in adulthood, and liberal concepts have become the order of the day. To prevent parents from abusing their children, the public is constantly being bombarded by messages of clemency and boundless consideration; effectively, children should be forgiven, parents should be understanding, and punishment should be avoided. Out of a desire to protect children from all hardship and unpleasantness, parental authority has become enfeebled and boundaries have been blurred. Nonetheless, at the same time society has seen a worrying rise in violence, from domestic violence to violence at school and on the streets. Sweden, a pioneer in enacting legislation that limits parental authority, is now experiencing a dramatic rise in child and youth violence. The country's lawyers and academics, who have established a committee for human rights, are now protesting that while Swedish children are protected against light physical punishment from their parents (e.g., being spanked on the bottom), they are exposed to much more serious violence from their peers. The committee's position is supported by statistics that indicate a dramatic rise in attacks on children and youths by their peers over the years since the law went into effect (9-1). Is it conceivable, therefore, that a connection exists between legislation that forbids across-the-board physical punishment and a rise in youth violence? We believe so! In Israel, where physical punishment has been forbidden since 2000 (9-2), there has also been a steady and sharp rise in youth violence, which bears an obvious connection to reduced parental authority. Children and adults are subjected to vicious beatings and even murder at the hands of violent youths, while parents, who should by nature be responsible for setting boundaries for their children, are denied the right to do so properly, as they are weakened by the authority of the law. Parents are constantly under suspicion, and the fear that they may act in a punitive manner toward their wayward children has paralyzed them and led to the almost complete transfer of their power into the hands of law-enforcement authorities. Is this what we had hoped for? Are the indifferent and hesitant law-enforcement authorities a suitable substitute for concerned and caring parents? We are well aware of the fact that law-enforcement authorities are not always able to effectively do their jobs, which, in turn, leads to the crumbling of society.
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Shulamit Blank (Fearless Parenting Makes Confident Kids)
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Before we begin our tour of the drug war, it is worthwhile to get a couple of myths out of the way. The first is that the war is aimed at ridding the nation of drug 'kingpins' or big-time dealers. Nothing could be further from the truth. The vast majority of those arrested are not charged with serious offenses. In 2005, for example, four out of five drug arrests were for possession, and one one out of five was for sales. Moreover, most people in state prison for drug offenses have no history of violence or significant selling activity.
The second myth is that the drug war is principally concerned with dangerous drugs. Quite to the contrary, arrests for marijuana possession - a drug less harmful than tobacco or alcohol - accounted for nearly 80 percent of the growth in drug arrests in the 1990s. Despite the fact that most drug arrests are for nonviolent minor offenses, the War on Drugs has ushered in an era of unprecedented punitiveness.
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Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness)
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They looked at the world around them and saw that the government was a ball of wasteful red tape; that the taxi industry treated customers like shit; hotels overcharged and overtaxed; health care was a sham, driven by the needs of the insurance agencies, not the sick; oil-dependent cars had helped to justify an eternal war in the Middle East; and illegal drugs were only illegal because the government wanted to control the people.
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Nick Bilton (American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road)
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I sat in the emergency room staring at all these people who were so concerned about Rita. The thing was, I had a feeling that there was a lot going on with Rita, but nothing like they were thinking. She needed some medical assistance alright, but hell, every woman in her situation did eventually. Paulo, my fuck boy of a husband… well legally, anyway, was sitting in here playing the role of the concerned father like he wasn’t just trying to marry his only daughter off to a man as old as him. It didn’t matter that biologically she wasn’t his because he didn’t know all that then. I wanted to go over there and poke his fucking eyes out, but it wasn’t time for that yet.
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Toy (He Stole My Heart 2: I Fell In Love With A Kingpin)
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Paulo was terrified just that quick. He slowly moved his hand down to make sure his balls were still where they were supposed to be. I had to laugh at him because I always knew he was just fronting while he ran the streets, but to see him now made me realize how much of a fucking punk he is. I leaned over and gave his silent and shaking ass a kiss. He looked confused as if he didn’t know what was going on. I laughed even more because his dumb ass didn’t even know he just got hit with the kiss of death.
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Toy (He Stole My Heart 2: I Fell In Love With A Kingpin)
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Don’t shake your head at me, nigga. You got me out here early as fuck, and all you did was shoot his old ass in the knee. You could have at least shot him in the stomach or something to make him feel like his fucking life was over. You know damn well I don’t do mornings, and then you gonna waste my fucking time on top of that.
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Toy (He Stole My Heart: I Fell In Love With A Kingpin)
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pull 6E in a meeting with the DOJ.
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Nick Bilton (American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web)
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Speeding down Peachtree Street, Lloyd did not notice the unmarked vehicle trailing him and that was a crucial mistake, especially for the well-known kingpin of the infamous E.P.G.
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Leo Sullivan (Keisha & Trigga : A Gangster Love Story)
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When Black limped down into the basement, he found L and Avant holding hands, watching TV. Avant was wearing a hot-pink thong.
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2 Volume 2: Parts 4-7)
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Black still hadn't decided if he was going to kill Avant or not, but in a sick kind of way, and even though he wasn't down with homosexuality, he was glad Avant was getting torture fucked by L. Black
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2 Volume 2: Parts 4-7)
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Tears cascaded down the big man's face and Black felt sorry for him, but honestly he didn't give a damn about what L's sexuality was. He knew L was a killer and that was all he cared about. Black
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2 Volume 2: Parts 4-7)
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Fresh had total control of her body but her loyalty was with Shamari.
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2 Volume 2: Parts 4-7)
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What Fresh was saying was true, but Black didn't know that Fresh actually knew the prices for coke in Atlanta. He
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2 Volume 2: Parts 4-7)
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The Tea Party Movement was a mass rebellion funded by corporate billionaires, like the Koch brothers, led by over-the-hill former GOP kingpins like Dick Armey, and ceaselessly promoted by millionaire media celebrities like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.
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Jane Mayer (Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right)
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I promise, you about to have a lot of overdosed muthafuckers on your watch.” “Nah, dead motherfuckers can’t buy drugs; that’s bad for business,” I said, walking out of the warehouse and getting into the back of the all-black tinted Suburban truck.
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Patrice Balark (Lovin' a Chi-Town Kingpin 2)
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If I was going to sit in a cell, it would be because of some shit I was actually caught doing, not because of some jealous bitches snitching or greedy niggaz tricking.
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Patrice Balark (Lovin' a Chi-Town Kingpin 2)
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the Tea Party movement was a “mass rebellion…funded by corporate billionaires, like the Koch brothers, led by over-the-hill former GOP kingpins like Dick Armey, and ceaselessly promoted by millionaire media celebrities like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.” Behind
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Jane Mayer (Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right)
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On closer inspection, as the Harvard political scientist Theda Skocpol and the Ph.D. student Vanessa Williamson observed in their 2012 book, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, the Tea Party movement was a “mass rebellion…funded by corporate billionaires, like the Koch brothers, led by over-the-hill former GOP kingpins like Dick Armey, and ceaselessly promoted by millionaire media celebrities like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.
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Jane Mayer (Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right)
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I told everyone the right place to be. I was the administrative kingpin in the Bexley house, despite what that senile old man might think,” she said, pointing outside the door.
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Henrietta Harding (The Secret Passion of an Enticing Earl (Tales of Tantalising Seduction #3))
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And your mother was a scumbag criminal kingpin, but we don’t judge you based on that.” Icky blinked. “Point taken. I’ll shut up now.
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J.N. Chaney (Blackest Ocean (Backyard Starship, #8))
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A twenty-four-hour stretch in early September 1990 marks an important but largely unknown juncture in the history of America’s complex history with drugs. On September 5, “Freeway” Ricky Ross pleaded guilty to a drug conspiracy count in a Cincinnati courtroom. The notorious crack kingpin had shifted his multi-million-dollar drug operation to the Midwest to stake claim on a higher profit margin. He was later sentenced to 121 months.
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Justin Tinsley (It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him)
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You’re immune to her.” “I’m not. I just know when she’s trying to get something out of me.” “Is resistance not the same as immunity?
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Bree Porter (Kingpin's Foxglove (The Tarkhanov Empire, #1))
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As for me, Elena had already been a part of me, deserving of my love and trust, since the day I picked up her thoughts in the shape of an academic article.
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Bree Porter (Kingpin's Foxglove (The Tarkhanov Empire, #1))
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His eyes had grown so dark, so heavy, that the tawny brown was now closer to the color of hickory.
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Bree Porter (Kingpin's Foxglove (The Tarkhanov Empire, #1))
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My cock hardened immediately. Elena spotted it and her eyebrows rose slightly. “Aren’t you tired?” “For you, never.
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Bree Porter (Kingpin's Foxglove (The Tarkhanov Empire, #1))
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No one will ever hurt you again.
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Bree Porter (Kingpin's Foxglove (The Tarkhanov Empire, #1))
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Do you need an official invitation, Elena? Will that keep you from leaving?” He gestured with his arm, like he was presenting his kingdom to me. “Marry me—or become my advisor. Become both, my wife and Sovietnik. Or do neither. The choice is yours.
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Bree Porter (Kingpin's Foxglove (The Tarkhanov Empire, #1))
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For Black and Latino youth in particular, the drug trade and the rise of freebase was an unprecedented economic opportunity. It was as though they’d struck gold in land thought to be barren. To the one, the biggest kingpins grew up in extreme poverty in some of America’s most devastated communities. Like generations of Americans before them, these young prospectors were willing to take on extreme risks and skirt the law in pursuit of their fortunes. The advent of freebase was their Gold Rush, their Homestead Act, their Prohibition.
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Donovan X. Ramsey (When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era)
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The producer became the kingpin. He was the independent set-up inside the studio. The front office had nothing to say about it. He did what he wanted to do, functioning as an independent unit.
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Jeanine Basinger (Hollywood: The Oral History)
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Case had always taken it for granted that the real bosses, the kingpins in a given industry, would be both more and less than people. He’d seen it in the men who’d crippled him in Memphis, he’d seen Wage affect the semblance of it in Night City, and it had allowed him to accept Armitage’s flatness and lack of feeling. He’d always imagined it as a gradual and willing accommodation of the machine, the system, the parent organism. It was the root of street cool, too, the knowing posture that implied connection, invisible lines up to hidden levels of influence.
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William Gibson (Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1))
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For some big-shot kingpin, he certainly sounds a lot like a parrot.
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Kia Carrington-Russell (Lethal Vows (Lethal Vows, #1))
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Naz was one of two leaders of the Sonora Cartel. Originally, three kingpins ran independent organizations under the alliance of the cartel, but before I came to live with him, Naz overthrew Alvarez and usurped his territory. I’d been told Alvarez came from a wealthy line of Spaniards, and he had thought himself superior to the other bosses. Naz had never talked to me about his motives, and I didn’t care. What I did know was that the takeover had been bloody, and Alvarez’s men had resisted the transition. “You control nearly half of Mexico and eighty percent of the drug trade in the US. Are you certain the expansion is necessary?
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Jill Ramsower (Impossible Odds (The Five Families, #4))
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coucher avec moi, ce soir?
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Vivian Blue (Rise of a Kingpin's Wife 2)
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I think it’s time for me to completely surrender myself to you. Your father explained some things to me while we spent time together, and he told me that in order for me to be true and righteous towards you, I must give you my secret treasure to willfully submit to you. I want you to have complete domination over me, because I don’t want to love anyone else but you,” she replied. “I want to satisfy all of your needs and desires, so I am willfully being submissive to you,” she explained, as she rubbed lubricant between her creases.
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Vivian Blue (Rise of the Kingpin's Wife 3)
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Well the Lord said, be fruitful and multiply.
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Part 8: The Season Finale)
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As a New York Times poll later showed, over three-quarters of its supporters identified as Republican. The bulk of the remainder felt the Republican Party was not Republican enough. Finally, although many of its supporters were likely political neophytes, from the start the ostensibly anti-elitist rebellion was funded, stirred, and organized by experienced political elites. On closer inspection, as the Harvard political scientist Theda Skocpol and the Ph.D. student Vanessa Williamson observed in their 2012 book, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, the Tea Party movement was a “mass rebellion…funded by corporate billionaires, like the Koch brothers, led by over-the-hill former GOP kingpins like Dick Armey, and ceaselessly promoted by millionaire media celebrities like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.
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Jane Mayer (Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right)
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Eli had come by to get his things and even though TeTe had chopped his finger off, he still wanted to be with her. He didn't want to give up his life of luxury.
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2 Volume 2: Parts 4-7)
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Black was thankful for the man's help, but there was no doubt in this mind, that this great blue-blooded, American hero would let the cops know about the marijuana.
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2 Volume 2: Parts 4-7)
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The doctors had to place a rod in Black's leg. His fibula had been shattered. Ironically, it was the same one that had fractured before when Chris had riddled his car with bullets. He knew that his leg would never be the same, but he was grateful that he was still alive.
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2 Volume 2: Parts 4-7)
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Black was thinking to himself that this bitch had to be crazy to deal with somebody like him. Why would she want to be involved with him? She'd just been shot at. "It's
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2 Volume 2: Parts 4-7)
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She was going to send another girl to see Thomas but Nikki didn't need to know that. "I'm
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2 Volume 2: Parts 4-7)
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Black knew that a girl like Jada was not going to stop living. She was going to have fun and see men. Hell, she was doing that even when Shamari was out. "You
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2 Volume 2: Parts 4-7)
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When Anna poured his glass, Q made sure he stared at her ass because he knew this would piss Diego off. He couldn't care less about pissing Diego off. Diego
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2 Volume 2: Parts 4-7)
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Rico grinned. He recognized Q but he was a broken man.
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2 Volume 2: Parts 4-7)
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Jada could see this was going nowhere, and there was no use in trying to persuade him to let the beef go.
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2 Volume 2: Parts 4-7)
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Q had counted millions of dollars with Fresh. There was no way that he could be broke. "I
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2 Volume 2: Parts 4-7)
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Black had been in Shamari's position before—in jail, calling to find out the whereabouts of his woman.
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2 Volume 2: Parts 4-7)
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Jada didn't want to continue with Big Papa. He was a nice guy, and he didn't deserve to keep getting used by her. Big
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K. Elliott (Kingpin Wifeys Season 2 Volume 2: Parts 4-7)
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It looked as if God was focused solely on Day’s mouth. They knew shit was about to get real serious. They had the information and were going after the kingpin and his army. There was no doubt that he was a dangerous man, and one of them could end up getting killed. “Have dinner with me tonight?” Day asked, his voice full of emotion. “Yes,” God answered immediately.
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A.E. Via (Nothing Special)