Iceberg Slim’s novels have never been easily digestible, but they have always been true. Night Train to Sugar Hill is no exception, offering us Slim’s end-of-life vision, with him looking back over his abusive childhood, his career as a criminal, and his later years as a family man.
 
Set against the backdrop of an America where its so-called dream is more of a nightmare and its underclass is deliberately preyed upon, Night Train is ultimately a hybrid novel, a mix of hardcore crime fiction, mysticism, L.A. noir, literary naturalism, and street literature.
 
Introduction by Justin D. Gifford