Eldorado Red to me is a cross mix between Cry Revenge and Daddy Cool, as far as elements of partners and family relationships, with a dash of Inner City Hoodlum in it (the partners in crime robbing their way to being rich). Typical Detroit Goines fare this go round. Eldorado Red's a big guy running numbers, his people are getting busted because somebody is messing with his trap houses, and relations with his son who he keeps trying to be a father to keep fracturing out of his son's own bitterness, ambition, and anger over his dad not raising him. Father doesn't suspect son, until a series of events start making him side-eye his kid and testing his loyalties to one big showdown. In true Goines fashion, no one gets out alive. ( )

Most crime writers approach their topic from the far side as it were. They read about crime. Donald Goines lived it, it gives his pot-boiler crime novels an urgency not exactly found in other, more polished work.

Eldorado Red is a successful numbers racketeer. His son Buddy is a junkie. Red lives a life of luxury while Buddy seethes over the deprived childhood he had with his mother (Red’s estranged wife). But Buddy is an ambitious young man, he knows the routine at the houses where Red’s runners deposit their take. In dizzying round of larceny, he and his addict pals rob them all. Meanwhile Red’s henchmen are busy tracking down the heist gang while Red takes on a number of beautiful ladies.

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