How do you kill the man who murdered your family — after he becomes the only one who makes you feel alive?
Fifteen years ago, a drive-by in Canarsie took Shamara Fox's mother and father while she watched helplessly. The man who pulled the trigger never spent a single day in a cell.
Today he calls himself Tommy Bossett — platinum rapper turned untouchable kingpin. Four-million-dollar mansion. Private army. A federal agent on retainer. You cannot get to a man like Tommy from the street.
So Shamara doesn't come from the street. She comes from the inside.
By day she files dental records on Flatlands Avenue. By night she empties 9mm clips into paper targets in a soundproof Canarsie basement beside Fashawn Corcino — her oldest friend, home from Iraq with a soldier's precision and something darker she won't talk about. Together they build Shamara a reputation as a contract killer. Then they use it to walk her straight into Tommy's world.
The plan is simple. Get close. Get closer. Finish what was started fifteen years ago.
But nobody warned Shamara that the monster she's hunted her whole life reads bedtime stories to his seven-year-old son, quietly funds the very neighborhoods that raised her, and swears he pulled that trigger with a gun pressed to his own family's head.
Nobody warned her she might believe him.
And nobody in Shamara's life — not her partners, not her family, not the man in her bed — is telling her the whole truth.
Revenge was supposed to set her free. It may be the thing that buries her.
One novel. Two endings.
The Canarsie Connection was written with two complete, dramatically different endings — both included. Read one. Then read the other. Then decide which one you believe.
From the author whose true story became the A24 film Sing Sing.
John "Divine G" Whitfield is an Oscar-nominated adapted screenwriter and executive producer on Sing Sing, in which he was portrayed by Colman Domingo in an Academy Award–nominated performance. He is a PEN Award–winning playwright, a co-founder of Rehabilitation Through the Arts, and the author of eight published novels.
He doesn't write about the street from the outside. He writes it from where he stood.
📚 BOOK CLUB READY — Two endings. One impossible question. A revenge thriller built for arguments over dinner.
✍️ SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE — Signed directly by the author.
ORDERED DIRECT FROM THE AUTHOR
Every copy ships from Divine G Entertainment in Brooklyn — not a warehouse. Add a signed and personalized copy at checkout.
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DETAILS
Format: Trade Paperback
Pages: 284
ISBN: 978-1-940765-10-5
Publisher: Divine G Entertainment
Language: English
Genre: Urban Fiction / Revenge Thriller / Crime Fiction
Setting: Canarsie, Brooklyn & Newark, New Jersey
Special feature: Two complete endings
Ships within 7 business days via USPS Media Mail.
Orders over $50 ship free.
Also available as an eBook and as an audiobook narrated by the author.
Content note: contains graphic violence, strong language, and sexual content.
How do you kill the man who murdered your family — after he becomes the only one who makes you feel alive?
Fifteen years ago, a drive-by in Canarsie took Shamara Fox's mother and father while she watched helplessly. The man who pulled the trigger never spent a single day in a cell.
Today he calls himself Tommy Bossett — platinum rapper turned untouchable kingpin. Four-million-dollar mansion. Private army. A federal agent on retainer. You cannot get to a man like Tommy from the street.
So Shamara doesn't come from the street. She comes from the inside.
By day she files dental records on Flatlands Avenue. By night she empties 9mm clips into paper targets in a soundproof Canarsie basement beside Fashawn Corcino — her oldest friend, home from Iraq with a soldier's precision and something darker she won't talk about. Together they build Shamara a reputation as a contract killer. Then they use it to walk her straight into Tommy's world.
The plan is simple. Get close. Get closer. Finish what was started fifteen years ago.
But nobody warned Shamara that the monster she's hunted her whole life reads bedtime stories to his seven-year-old son, quietly funds the very neighborhoods that raised her, and swears he pulled that trigger with a gun pressed to his own family's head.
Nobody warned her she might believe him.
And nobody in Shamara's life — not her partners, not her family, not the man in her bed — is telling her the whole truth.
Revenge was supposed to set her free. It may be the thing that buries her.
One novel. Two endings.
The Canarsie Connection was written with two complete, dramatically different endings — both included. Read one. Then read the other. Then decide which one you believe.
From the author whose true story became the A24 film Sing Sing.
John "Divine G" Whitfield is an Oscar-nominated adapted screenwriter and executive producer on Sing Sing, in which he was portrayed by Colman Domingo in an Academy Award–nominated performance. He is a PEN Award–winning playwright, a co-founder of Rehabilitation Through the Arts, and the author of eight published novels.
He doesn't write about the street from the outside. He writes it from where he stood.
📚 BOOK CLUB READY — Two endings. One impossible question. A revenge thriller built for arguments over dinner.
✍️ SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE — Signed directly by the author.
ORDERED DIRECT FROM THE AUTHOR
Every copy ships from Divine G Entertainment in Brooklyn — not a warehouse. Add a signed and personalized copy at checkout.
Standard — $15.00
Signed & Personalized by Divine G — $25.00
DETAILS
Format: Trade Paperback
Pages: 284
ISBN: 978-1-940765-10-5
Publisher: Divine G Entertainment
Language: English
Genre: Urban Fiction / Revenge Thriller / Crime Fiction
Setting: Canarsie, Brooklyn & Newark, New Jersey
Special feature: Two complete endings
Ships within 7 business days via USPS Media Mail.
Orders over $50 ship free.
Also available as an eBook and as an audiobook narrated by the author.
Content note: contains graphic violence, strong language, and sexual content.
