77th and Broadway

77th and Broadway shines a dazzling light on one of the most lucrative and secretive businesses on earth in this gritty, yet hilarious at times, urban, true-events crime fiction.

Follow the colorful life of Richie V. Smooth, a gutsy small-time hustler with a shady past looking for a career change when he's hired to help struggling, conniving LA bail bondsman Wilbert Lee Buck save his failing business during the advent of a cocaine epidemic.

Mr. Buck's goal is to retire with a million dollars, however, he's desperately trying to recover from $250,000 in bail forfeitures caused when a former employee succumbed to the free drugs and sex provided by a local drug dealer in exchange for bailing out members of his gang.

Mr. Buck has a glimmer of hope to fulfill his dream when he makes Richie a partner and reopens a second office in a nearby city. Business began to boom, but so did the senseless craziness of thefts, robberies and murders.

The story unravels into a roller coaster ride interweaving twenty-five true event crime stories, reflecting a day in the life of a determined bail bondsman who breaks all the rules, entailing unscrupulous characters, thieves, hustlers, thugs, con men and women whose lives illuminate issues of social injustice, corruption, betrayal, power and punishment...all who roll the dice and gamble to come up big, wind-up in prison, or stretched out on a cold slab in the coroner's office, DOA.