Chapters 17-20 Summary

Bullet's business has made him wealthy, and the trip to Florida is strictly first class. Winter remembers that Bullet was an enemy of her father's and demands that he tell her the story of Santiaga's fall from power. Bullet explains that a crew called Young Heads robbed one of Santiaga's drug spots, and word went out that he was vulnerable. Then one powerful police official, whom Santiaga had in his pocket, retired. One by one, the little pieces of Santiaga's empire began to crumble. His soldiers began to give information to federal officials in exchange for amnesty, and dirty cops moved over to the Young Heads. Santiaga was arrested based upon information from his own "niggas," and, according to Bullet, he will be in prison forever.

Winter returns to Brooklyn with Bullet and hides out in his apartment while he makes...