The Big Sleep racketeering; Al Capone and Meyer Lansky were not role models. A figure like A. G. Geiger, the dirty-books racketeer in Raymond Chandler's "Big Sleep" (1939) who supplements his business activities as owner of a pornographic lending library in Hollywood by arranging sex orgies and blackmailing rich customers, is a fascinating but lurid exaggeration. However susceptible film personalities were to blackmail, it was not the métier of book dealers." The Big Sleep The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946
The Big Payback (book) as "meticulous" and indicative of "fine sense of both the macro and the micro". praised for its "intertwining of commerce and art". The book was criticized for its sense of focus and incomplete narrative. Evelyn McDonnell of the "Los Angeles Times" wrote that despite its "ambitious scope," The Big Payback lacks balance, failing to mention "Atlanta, Houston, Miami, etc." while focusing on hip hop mostly from an East-West Coast perspective. The Big Payback (book) The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop is a book by Dan Charnas chronicling the business history of the hip hop industry. The