Gentleman of Leisure: A Year in the Life of a Pimp by Bob Adelman and Susan Halla. Just on the shelves in time for consumerism season, a couple of stunning books from Powerhouse, the same good folk that brought you Scoop Jackson's 'Sole Provider', the Beastie Boys 'Sounds of Science' and a number of Jamel Shabbazz titles. Get yer' Studio 54 close-up on with this. Get yer' Mobb on with this. 'It's all good' is a ''Gritty, graphic, and gripping exposé of the underworld and its inhabitants''. But this is essentially, a re-mastered edition of the now-classic 1972 first edition, "Following a year in the life of a Pimp". The people who appear in this book are not models: they are real people with real lives. Only their names have been changed to protect the guilty. Armed only with a camera and a tape recorder, Adelman and Hall entered the lives of the pimp Silky and his women. What they found flew in the face of prevalent prejudices; stripped of stereotype and myth, the pimps and whores that shared their tales were complex people with a code of behavior as complex as the Mafia's, a defined sense of self, and were embroiled in romantic dramas. This stunning expose of Silky and his ladies explains the passionate bond between a pimp and his "hos". Do you have enough books about Pimps on your shelf?