The Golden Hustla Book

Detective Houser wants nothing more than his retirement, but when a murder case involving the WMM firm lands on his desk, he can't avoid it.

All of law enforcement knows that WMM Advertising, also known as We Make Millionaires, is one of the biggest and hardest-to-penetrate fraudulent telemarketing firms in the state of Georgia.A tape recording of a man's death may finally help Houser make a case against the firm.Calling in Alexis Greenspan, aka Nina Coles, the top sales associate in the company, Houser is determined to use her to find out the company's secrets—no matter who's hurt in the process.

Publishers Weekly

Clark's raucous latest (after Thug Lovin') tells the tale of hustle-wise Nina Coles, an outlaw on the run from a New Jersey nightmare. When a check cashing scam ends in bloodshed, Nina's best friend Michelle is dead and her crackhead brother, Peedie, is seriously wounded. Hoping to start her life over, Nina steals two kilos of drugs from her ex-boyfriend. Once she sells them, she uses the money to establish herself in Decatur, Ga., picking up an alias along the way. She takes a telemarketing job selling magazines, but quickly moves to a more lucrative but infinitely shadier sales job at the WMM (We Make Millionaires) Agency, persuading people to spend thousands of dollars on the chance to win gold coins. Her goal is to earn enough to send for her three children, but the FBI are watching WMM, and things get dicey when her boss orders the suspicious nephew of a client killed. Clark is nothing if not streetwise and channels her knowledge into keeping Nina one step ahead of the hustle and always at the top of her gold-legginged game. (Oct.)