In this astonishing account, Iceberg Slim reveals the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the men in their lives to becoming a giant of the streets.

A seething tale of brutality, cunning and greed, Pimp is a harrowing portrait of life on the wrong side of the tracks, and a rich warning from a true survivor.

"Slim belongs to the knuckle-duster-in-the-face school of storytelling" - * Sunday Times *

"Pimp is hot and frantic, a remarkable tour de force of carnality and violence" - * The Times *

"This brutally honest memoir . . . is as shocking today as ever. A precursor of forty years of black-street culture, this is uncompromising and harrowing, but a landmark book nonetheless" - * Big Issue *

"Iceberg Slim does for the pimp what Jean Genet did for the thief" - * Washington Post *

"Pimp is an eye-boggling netherworld documentary, a tear-arse tale of ferocious emotion, expressed through action" - * Q magazine *