![]() ![]() ReceptionĬritical reception was mostly positive. The team drew on Walter Mosley and Zane for some of the book's influences and included several recognizable Hollywood features such as the restaurant chain Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles and the African-American owned bookstore Eso Won Books. The first draft of Casanegra was written by Due and subsequent drafts were co-written with Underwood and Barnes. The project never came to fruition, but Underwood continued to work on the concept until he approached Due with the idea of writing a novel based upon a gigolo. Underwood came up with the book's concept after working on a project with Diana Ross that would have had the two acting as a client and her gigolo. However overcoming his past proves to be harder than he imagined after Tennyson finds himself the prime suspect for the murder of Afrodite, a female rapper and former client of his. This past has caused a distance between Tennyson and his family, especially his LAPD captain of a father. Tennyson "Ten" Hardwick is an actor trying to make it big in Hollywood, which is made difficult by his past as a gigolo that sold his body to anyone willing to pay the right price. ![]()
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