Respect the Jux

MEET CATIn Jamaica . . . he learned the art of the "jux": robbing people by studying their everyday movements. By the age of eight, Cat was shoplifting and purse-snatching. By ten, he had his first gun. At fifteen, he committed his first murder.MAKE THE GANGIn New York City . . . he created The Order: a secret society of thieves who played by Cat's rules. He taught his crew how to pull off the perfect jux. Made them swear on a bible and a bullet. Robbed dealers, pushers, thugs. And raked in millions. Then Cat was betrayedby one of his own men.BREAK THE RULESIn Miami . . . he set up a new operation. Bigger game, bigger stakes. The targets are primeathletes, politicians, drug lords, celebritiesand the payoff is huge. But the party scene is as dangerous as the ladies are beautiful. Cat has to watch his back and remember the rules: Never trust a thief. Never get caught. And always . . .RESPECT THE JUXA novel based on true events, written by a man who experienced it within two degrees of separation.

Frank Matthews was born in New York City and grew up in Queens and Brooklyn. Respect the Jux is his first novel. 

Karen Hunter is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a celebrated radio talk-show host, and coauthor of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including Confessions of a Video Vixen, On the Down Low, and Wendy’s Got the Heat. She is also an assistant professor in the Film & Media Department at Hunter College.