From the West End to Lil Pakistan Part 2

Some secrets don't die; they multiply For nearly thirty years, Atlanta's West End has carried the weight of unanswered questions, forgotten victims, and families denied closure. In Part Two of the From the West End to Lil-Pakistan trilogy, Lucile-Kil takes readers beyond the headlines and deep inside a world shaped by the crack epidemic, mass incarceration, street warfare, betrayal, and murder.This book traces the author's firsthand account of how the Atlanta-Miami drug war began, and how it finally came to an end-leaving behind shattered friendships, murdered young men, imprisoned survivors, and communities forever changed.The story grows darker with Leonard Holland, also known as Shaheed Abdul Radman-the man the author identifies as a serial killer and paid FBI informant. According to the author's investigation, Holland was released from prison and returned to Atlanta's streets to spy on Muslim leader Jamil Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, after making claims connected to the approaching 1996 Olympic Games.But while Holland worked for the FBI, the author contends that bodies continued to fall.Moving from Georgia's prison system to the drug corridors connecting Atlanta and Miami, this memoir chronicles the rise and fall of an underground empire and the terrible human cost of the War on Drugs.This is more than a memoir. More than true crime. It is Part Two of a trilogy about the beginning and ending of the Atlanta-Miami drug war, a community terrorized, a government informant protected, and the victims the author believes the system left behind.Some names and places were changed to protect the guilty and the innocent.