Teddy resorts to stealing with friends to supply his habit, while Terry, under the guidance of a pregnant heroin addict named Minnie, turns to prostitution.
Teddy watches two friends get shot down by some security guards and he himself is killed after he and two other dope fiends rob Porky.
Minnie, after performing a sexual act with Porky's dogs to cover the cost of her addiction, drops the drugs down a sewer.
Terry walks in on her dangling from the ceiling where the head of her stillborn child is seen coming out from between her legs, as she twists back and forth over a pile of excrement on the floor.
MELUS writer Greg Goode covered the book in his 1984 article From Dopefiend to Kenyatta's Last Hit: The Angry Black Crime Novels of Donald Goines, writing that "To read Goines's description is to imagine a bloody, pustulant cross between a pharmacy, an operating room and a torture chamber, where sick junkies frantically stab themselves with rusty, clogged needles trying to hit a track.