FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

powerHouse Books is pleased to announce the November 2013 release of

DEALERS

by Peter Madsen

"The criminal class is a more exact cross-section of humanity than any trade could be."
—Luc Sante, The Believer

Weed, coke, heroin, molly, promethazine, crack, PCP, LCD, opium, hashish, mushrooms, and countless other illicit substances flood the streets of New York City where they are consumed as quickly as they can be delivered.

For Dealers, street reporter Peter Madsen set out across New York City—from staid Gramercy residences to bleak homeless hangouts; grimy Bushwick bike messenger bars and tony Park Avenue penthouses—to interview this particular criminal class. Through anonymous one-on-one interviews with an alarmingly wide host of subjects (including a transient heroin-addict supporting his habit, cute art-school girls running a weed lounge, a connection-ready concierge, fixed-gear weed couriers, stick-up kids, and a lawyer who deals on the side), Madsen extracts un-glamorized, sometimes hilarious, and always nuanced accounts of the navigators of New York City's expansive drug underworld. Demand never ceases to grow, and where there is demand, there will always be plenty of outlaw capitalists willing to step up and supply.

Please click here for a preview of Dealers.
**For best quality viewing, download this PDF to your Desktop or open in Safari.

A native Minnesotan born to a Swede and a Wisconsinite, Peter Madsen lives in Brooklyn. A longtime contributor to Thrasher magazine, the bicycle messenger works in Manhattan, where he has conducted over 250 on-the-spot interviews with New Yorkers, largely panhandlers, for his ongoing "Word on the Street New York" project. He spent his entire advance for this book on a gold chain. He loves your cat.

A preview is available by clicking here: Dealers

High-res scans to your specification are available upon request; scanning from the book or lifting images or text from the mechanical files is strictly prohibited. Mandatory credit line: From Dealers by Peter Madsen, published by powerHouse Books.