The author, Earl Howard, hails from Buffalo, New York. He took to the street life at a very early age. The first time he was in Canada, at the age of ten, he thought he was in Hustler heaven. He stayed in Canada a year where the street life took him on a journey he never saw coming. Since his father had moved to LA when he was young, Howard, while in his twenties, moved to be with him. By then, Howard had habituated to a life of crime. He felt he was only good for one thing--the streets. After serving a year in prison in Los Angeles for conning, eleven years later, he moved to Buffalo. While in Buffalo, Howard sold heroin and cocaine, until he was set up by the Feds and associates he looked at as his brothers. Sentenced to a hundred and thirty months, Howard served nine years. While incarcerated, Howard took up Creative Writing, and learned how to write movies and novels. Corruption in the Queen City is the first of a series of street novels. Since his release, Howard has started his own publishing company, E & S Publishing Company. He can be reached at earl.howard@eandspublishing.com. (http: //www.eandspublishing.com).