The Take Down by Mark Anthony ♦♦♦♦
While investigating one of hip-hop’s most successful music labels, Gun Clap Records, undercover FBI agent Jessica Jackson is willing to do anything to keep her identity a secret. She helps the Feds hit a grand slam during their investigation when they learn that Angela Calvino, the daughter of New York mafia boss Paulie Calvino, plans to start a hip-hop label with money from the Calvino family crime rackets. LaCostra Nostra Records will rise under the tutelage of Gun Clap Records’s feared and powerful CEO, and the Feds soon have what they need to take down both record labels. The only question is, did Agent Jackson cross the line to get the evidence she needed?

Critique: I was really intrigued by this book. I was not at all impressed about how the book closed but as a whole the book was great. The book portrayed things that were happening in Hip-Hop when it was written. This would be Murder Inc's and the relationship it has with notorious drug kingpin Kenneth "Supreme'' McGriff . Of all the more interesting aspects of the books, the author chose to name the character that was mirroring McGriff after him (character name "Supreme"). This book is a must read, especially those who are into shows like BET's "American Gangsta".