Shower Posse: The Most Notorious Jamaican Crime Organization

by Duane Blake

This tell-all saga is in the words of its mastermind, Vivian Blake. Blake skyrocketed to wealth with savvy business skills, but his savage henchmen terrorized the streets into submission. Blake's men had been raised in Jamaica where murders went unsolved daily. Shower ran wild spraying bullets on anyone and everyone in their way. Their weapons, fingerprints and m.o.'s were not traceable. Most American police had never seen any of them before. That careless attitude toward pulling triggers earned a record 1400+ murders and quickly established Shower's rep. The Shower Posse is for readers of crime, suspense and drug sub-culture. It's packed with tales of power struggles, high-flying gangster success, betrayal and perseverance. It contains exclusive, candid, in-depth details of the inner workings of Shower. The Shower Posse will easily explain scores of high-profile unsolved murders across the world. The book's sixteen page pictorial includes more than fifty never before published pictures of posse members and murder scenes.

Genres: True Crime

Hardcover

First published June 30, 2003

Reviews

[Amar Pai · Rating 1 out of 5]

I wish I could give negative stars. This is the worst-written book I've encountered in some time. I forgot how bad writing could be. It's about this Jamaican drug running gang, the "Shower Posse," so called cos they rain down bullets like it's raining showers. The book specifically recounts the life and times of this guy who ran the gang. It's written by the guy's son, which... ew... there's a lot of random pointless sex scenes and I kept thinking, this must have been weird for the son to write. Or maybe not, maybe he didn't know the guy that well and this is just the result of jailhouse telephone conversations.

The guy clearly idolizes his pop, but he has no idea how to convey a story. The book is infuriatingly scattered, filled with countless references to people who are never properly described or contextualized, who quickly appear and disappear like movie credits for "Guy In Restaurant #3" and "Gaffer." There's one guy named Modeler... you'd think that name is interesting enough to merit a description or explanation of why he's named Modeler. NOPE!

Instead you get monotonous page after page of 'he slept with this girl,' 'he bought 400 lbs of marijuana,' 'he sold 200 lbs of marijuana', 'then his friend jo jo showed up,' 'then jo jo left' Aaargh. Oh another thing, there's a guy in here named "Killo." Then later on the writer is talking about kilos of cocaine, but he misspells kilo as Killo! For some reason I found this slip up to be so annoying I threw the book against the wall. This thing wouldn't pass muster as a high school english paper.

Truly bottom of the barrel.

[Rashida Golden Jolly · Rating 1 out of 5]

The parts of this book I was able to get through were entertaining but terribly written. The storylines are all over the place and there’s zero flow to the story. Terrible. A DNF for me.

[Psalm100girl · Rating 5 out of 5]

heart wrenching need to be made in a film