Update and a Question for the Fans?

 Hello HSITC fans,

Sorry I have not updated this blog in such a long time. Excited to share though that I have almost completed re-typing the original Hot Summer in the City Novel (See left) in a Word document with photos from the movie worked into the text, and anyone interested in purchasing a copy for a small price should email me at lisabakerfan@gmail.com  

Typing this took forever but I'm certainly not trying to get rich, more interested in talking to others who have the same passion for the movie that I do. In some respects I found the book to be even better than the movie, so typing it was a labor of love:)

CONCLUSION- Hot Summer in the City Book Review (Part 3: The Book vs The Movie, Day 3, Chapter 6))

 Chapter 6 gives the Book readers an Alternative Ending! In the movie, Duke gives his captive her freedom, and instructions for how to find the main road and hitch a ride back home. A teary eyed and very concerned appearing Debby,  then questions Duke about if he has to follow through on his mission. As Duke, Shorty, and Coke drive away, the look on Debby's face reflects a great deal of sadness, such that it left viewers wondering whether she had began having feelings for the gang leader. 

Devoid in the movie however, is any explanation as to why Duke let Debby go. I had hoped the book would fill in that gap. I wanted to understand his rationale for letting her go, especially as she had knowledge that could have upset his plans and even put him and his comrades in prison. Unfortunately,  in the four pages we are gifted, only a couple of additional nuggets of information can be mined from the circumstances as to how Duke's release of Debbie from her captivity went down.

The story picks up with a scantily clad Debbie, still dressed in the ripped tatters which remains of her dress, laboring down a dirt road away from the cabin, with all the strength her aching, wobbly, lily white, eighteen year old legs can muster. It's reasonable to assume that Duke finally got into the gang's car and gave Debbie her shoes back, as no mention is made of her being still barefoot and walking awkwardly or in pain. No mention of Duke having given her directions back home is made, but safe to assume that occurred as well. 

Fortunately, a farmer in an old pickup drives by and picks her up, being on his way to take his vegetables to market. As he tries to engage our exhausted damsel in small talk, the author takes us into her mind, which is described  as being "shattered." 

We learn that Debbie is struggling with trying to figure out why Duke let her go? Duke's only condition of her release was Debbie giving him her word that she would not tell anyone what happened in the cabin or go to law enforcement and reveal the gang's plans. So there she was, sitting in a stranger's pickup as the first paroled Prisoner of War in what Duke had titled the  "Great Race War of Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-Seven." Paroled on only a verbal promise of Non-Disclosure of Secrets and a pledge of Neutrality for the upcoming conflict.

The most fascinating clue is that we learn Duke lied when he said he had "forgot something" as he didn't take anything with him! Debbie concludes that he only came back early out of concern for her, knowing his authority over the gang members had eroded, and his words alone could no longer ensure Debbie's safety.  That he would gun down his former lover to save her life, and then let her go instead of keeping her in his custody, invokes questions that consume and perplex Debbie as she rides back to town with the farmer, feigning interest in her conversation with him. 

Our story concludes with the truck's radio broadcasting information about the riots breaking out in Detroit, and the farmer complaining that the blacks in Detroit are acting like "animals." That comment takes our heroine's mind back to how she had just acted like an animal, forcing herself to willfully and wantonly welcome Stitch's sodomizing of her to enlist him as an ally for her protection. While her success in this stratagem bought her only a few additional seconds of safety, it had been those precious seconds that had saved her life. Sprinkled in the blood of her nemesis, Debbie had emerged from Duke's bedroom triumphant.  

With a sense of irony, Debbie replies to the farmer, "Sometimes we all act like animals."

So many questions remain. Did Debbie forgive and heal the rift with her mother? Did she find her missing brother? Did she end up staying with fiancé Billy after vowing to breakup with him because his dad was sleeping with her mom?

 And what feelings were at the roots of Duke and Debbie's emotionally laden parting? Had they started having feelings for each other? Would their paths ever cross again? Did that warm feeling of coal burning inside Debbie's womb she felt upon waking that morning, was it the result of Duke's impregnating Debbie? Did our suburban ivory princess receive Duke's baby to take home as a life-long souvenir from her tragic ordeal? Perhaps left behind as a posthumous wedding gift for Debbie and Bill after Duke's self- prophesied death in the riot, so he could "live forever inside her" as he desired during their coupling the previous night? 

 Just as in the movie and unfortunately for us readers, our author leave these questions concerning Duke and Debbie's future unanswered. And as for the state of Duke and Debbie's feelings for each other, we are only given a few clues veiled in enigma and woven into a shroud of mystery.

THE END

Hot Summer in the City Book Review (Part 3: The Book vs The Movie, Day 3, Chapter 5)

In Chapter 5, our damsel in distress awakens to the sound of a squirrel on the rooftop, and her first possibility of escape from captivity.  As Duke lays next to her in deep slumber, the book takes us into Debbie's mind as she does a risk analysis of whether to attempt an escape, or to remain and try and keep herself in Duke's good graces, and under the mantle of his protection. We are told her thigh muscles were painfully sore, but her belly felt filled and warm, as though there were a gentle glowing coal implanted there which did not burn, but still emitted a soft, soothing heat. She knew it was from the great pool of white warm liquid Duke had emptied into her and buried deep inside her. Her vague fears of becoming pregnant flickered through her mind, but were overshadowed by the sudden realization and humilation of knowing that she had wanted it. She had lapsed into uncontrollable passion and begged him to cum in her with her words and body. 

Deep in thought, Debbie gets out bed and slips her dress back on, sans her crumpled up bra and panties which are pretty much useless after all she's been through. No mention of her shoes, which of course in the movie played a critical part in her escape plans. She walks out of Duke's bedroom, and see's the remaining gang members asleep, positioned just as in the movie.

 Weighing the decision, our beautiful blonde protagonist determines that no matter how fond Duke has become of her, he can't allow her to live. She knows too much about the plans and could disrupt their plans if let go beforehand, or rat them out afterwards. 

Unlike in the movie where Debby's plan goes bad by going back for her shoes, the gang gets alerted to her flight when a gust of wind causes the porch door to slam shut after she's exited the cabin. Our heroine tries to run away, but her aching legs and bare feet fail her terribly, and in moments a naked Shorty has her in his clutches and carries a sobbing Debbie back to the cabin. 

The dialogue between the gang over what to do with their voluptuous prisoner unfolds the same as in the movie. The book does highlight though how Debbie immediately finds solace in Duke's eyes when he sees her, she can feel he holds no malice towards her for the escape attempt and understands why she did it. Also noteworthy is that Debbie's plea to not be left alone with Jodie and Stitch comes immediately after she makes eye contact with Jodie, who looks at her with a sadistic glaze upon learning she will be left to guard her.  

The manner in which Debbie is tied up is different from the movie. Debbie is taken back to Duke's bedroom, with her arms tied to two steel eyes in the wall that had been used as a towel rack by a previous occupant.  Her arms are stretched uncomfortably over her head, but she was able to at least sit on the floor. Before leaving, Duke comes in to assure her she will be ok, and that they will be back tonight. 

As in the movie, a significant period of time passes that enables Debbie to get some rest, before her nemesis Jodie enters the room, and their final confrontation begins.

Jodie looks down on Duke's new blonde haired odalisque with cruel disdain. Again, the dialogue between our protagonist and her Amazonian antagonist tracks nearly precisely with the movie. Jodie enters the room and verbally abuses and threatens Debbie; Debbie feebly invokes her status as being under Duke's protection; followed by Jodie spitting in her rival's face and burning her cigarette out on Debbie's foot. 

Debbie cries out in pain, prompting Stitch to come into the room and tell Jodie to leave her alone because of Duke's orders. Jodie responds by ripping Debbie's dress off, and the sight of bound, naked, and helpless Debbie cowering in the corner to be away from Jodie, fills Stitch with awe and lust, just as Jodie planned. She then offers Stitch the opportunity to do anything he would like to do with Debbie sexually. Knowing she's at the mercy of a mad woman and half crazy idiot, Debbie feels terrified and and a sense of horror over her impending degradation.  

Jodie grabs Debbie by the ankles and pulls her as far away from the wall as the ropes will allow, scrapping the poor damsel's bottom on the floor, but her cries of pain are ignored. Jodie then forces Debbie to spread her legs as wide as possible, causing pain to her vagina and tears of shame. Next Jodie cuts the ropes off so their captive, white suburban princess can be stood up and put on the bed for Stitch's use. As in the movie, after roughly fingering Debbie's vagina to prepare her to be used, she flips our persecuted maiden over and works her finger inside Debbie's pale buttocks, and delightfully tells Stitch to take her there instead.  Debbie realizes Jodie is enjoying getting her revenge for yesterday, and that for her, she must have felt like her return on the suffering she was imposing on her rival for Duke's affection was at least one thousandfold.

Most unfortunate for Debbie, the author tells us that Stitch has the largest cock of all the gang members, which causes Debbie to yell out in pain as he began working himself inside the virgin territory of her back passageway. 

"Aaaaahhhgggggg...God!" Debbie grunted in pain and continued her hopeless thrashing beneath  him. She felt as though she had been split open by a knife and her insides were torn and ripped as Jodie's crackling laughter reverberated throughout the room like the voice of doom itself. 

Finally however, Debbie's anus begins to adjust to the unnatural invasion, and she began to gather her thoughts together to fight back. The author's account of Debbie's plan and execution is brilliantly written, and makes clear Debbie has formulated a plan and went into warrioress mode, which the movie barely hints at: 

Two could play the game the vicious Negress was playing by appealing to the animal instincts of the half-wit Stitch. He was her only hope to protect her from the horrible death or mutilation that was sure to follow from her ravishment. She had to get him on her side at all costs...and there was only one way to do that. 

Debbie's buttocks began a slow, methodical, hardly perceptible rotation beneath him. He flexed his penis deep in her rectum in an answering signal...to her responding to him...He gasped as he felt her throb and tighten around his cock like a warm glove...His joy knew no bounds. He had conquered her...The little white bitch was his now...his pistoning black cock was splitting the whiteness of her anus like a soot covered train tunneling through a snow covered mountain.

Debbie knelt before him and prayed, prayed that her revulsion and humiliation would not betray her to him...She began to undulate her buttocks in tiny circles, waving the white full round cheeks back at him lasciviously like a red flag before a bull...Strangely, the tiny bit of whore in every woman suddenly broke forth into a tingle of masochistic excitement. She wasn't working for money but for her life...She had to enjoy it, or he would know she was using him...

"Oh yes, Darling...fuck it like that...Oh God...Oooooh God...Oh cum, darling, cum."

Finally, Stitch empties his loins inside of Debbie's ass and falls off of her, thinking he has just taken Duke's girl away from him. Then Jodie pulls her switchblade threatening to cut off Debbie's tit. Shorty springs to Debbie's defense. We are told, 

Stitch placed himself between Debbie and the advancing Negress. His hands were clinched into tight fists and the muscles on his back stood out in broad, powerful sinews that gave Debbie a sudden sense of security. At least she had someone on her side, even if she had to undergo the same terrible ordeal over and over again until the others returned...

Just as in the movie, a passion weakened Stitch gets stabbed in the chest by Jodie, leaving Debbie stunned by the violent turn of events. 

"Nice try honky." Our heroine's villainess declares triumphantly.  

Too weak to run or fight, she slinks away from Jodie, who then gets on the bed and finally reaches over to grab our damsel's left tit and cut it. Debbie lays there helpless, with eyes closed in horrific defeat. Then she hears a sudden roar, and opens her eyes to Duke holding a smoking shotgun, having just killed her curvacous, ebony adversary. Debbie jumps up and looks down on her now vanquished foe with stunned disbelief.

Duke, after instructing her to get up and get dressed, explains, "We forgot something and had to come back. They wouldn't have done that last year if I had told them not to." He laments with nostalgic bitterness, recognizing that the era of his leadership style's effectiveness, has begun fading to black.   

END OF CHAPTER FIVE. 

Hot Summer in the City Book Review (Part 2: The Book vs The Movie, Day 2, Chapter 4)

Chapter 4 is only 20 pages long and dedicated exclusively to the sexual encounter between Duke and Debbie in Duke's bedroom. It tracks so well with the chronological sequence of the conjugal relations they shared in the movie, that one would wonder if it was written after the fact. Still, it is exceptionally well written, and does provide the reader with additional material and insights not found in the movie. These highlights are as follows:  

Debbie can hear Jodie's gang rape from Duke's bedroom: In the book, Duke doesn't get the bedroom door completely shut, so Debbie cannot help but hear Jodie's ongoing whimpering protests and moans and the grunts of the gang members as the three men ravish her. Debbie is frightened and disturbed by those sounds and wants to ask Duke to shut the door to block the noise, but is too afraid of upsetting him to do so.

Dialogue clean up: In the movie one can barely hear the pre-kiss verbal exchange they, share, but reading it in the book clears that up. Here is the exchange:

Duke: You're pretty.

Duke: I hope they didn't hurt you?

Debbie: No. They didn't. (The book doesn't explain why she lied to Duke about this). 

Duke comes from a large family: We learn that Duke has younger brothers and sisters, and is worried they may get killed when the great Race War begins the next day. 

The biggest value of Chapter 4 though, is that it gives the mental perspectives of Duke and Debbie towards one another, and the situation that has brought themselves together. What follows is some of the more critical character development content of each: 

Duke's Point of View:

Duke looked down on her with an almost religious reverence. He would have given anything in the world in that moment if he could have possessed someone like her, under different circumstances... He would have given anything if [the rapes] hadn't happened and things had been different... He might have won her on his own merits, the way a woman should be won..Now...with what he had committed himself to do, he knew that could never happen.

He wished also, with all his heart, that he could explain this to the white girl who might understand better why he needed her so much tonight. But he knew he couldn't. They were a complete world apart and he could never put the words together that could even begin to describe how he felt. She would just have to go on forever believing he was an inhumane black brute because he didn't have at this moment the time or the words to convince her otherwise.

Debbie's Point of View: 

She was naked now before the Negro but felt no intense fear. She had come to trust him in the last few minutes and sensed he would not hurt her intentionally. In fact, the thought ran hazily through her mind that he probably would stop if she pleaded with him. But she had no intention of doing that now. He had saved her from another horrible evening at the hands of the three depraved men and the venomous anger of the Negress, and she sensed that it had not been through desire for her alone, but from a strange compassion that had arisen in him for her as a human being. She knew because his hands playing over the softness of her now quivering flesh were asking, not demanding. And there was no other way she could repay him. 

Indeed, Debbie had no other way to repay him, but even she becomes taken aback by how her body responds to his gentle, asking hands. 

Debbie, somewhere back in the distant ages since his hands had reached for her body, had drifted into a strange unknown world of sudden, deep, soft pleasure of the flesh. She had lain beneath his hands at first in fear, then in grim realization she had a debt to pay. Now...all conscious thought of why she was here, or who her slowly flaming body was writhing beneath was lost in her memory. It no longer mattered as she felt the tiny licking flames running all around her between the softness of her inner thighs, out of the tips of her now pebble hard nipples, and down again to the burning core of her vagina where it roared in a white-hot heat like the interior of a blast furnace.

As Debby begins falling into an expected physical and emotional abyss of pleasure, the author gives a brilliant, dare I say penetrating insight, as to how this impacted Duke's state of mind and the objectives that spurned Duke on, as he proceeded to tease Debbie's body through an agonizingly pleasurable long session of foreplay. 

Duke's Point of View:

Her passion spurred his own. Disbelief buzzed through his brain that this could be happening. Last night in the car he had brutally ripped this voluptuous white girl's virginity from between her legs in a brutal rape, and yet tonight she writhing and twisting beneath him as if she was his slave...her throbbing vaginal slit presented to him in willing sacrifice...but he waited. He waited because she needed it and that's what he wanted from her even though it tortured him beyond his wildest imagination... because he knew he had conquered her soul and she was completely at the mercy of his desires at this moment...He held back the final plunge that would fuse them together in one great, wet, pulsating mass of black and white flesh, to wring from her that one final admission of surrender that would bond them together as long as she lived.

She had to remember she had done it and done it because she had wanted it more than pride itself. He would be leaving this world tomorrow, he could feel it in his bones...he wanted to leave something behind that would make him live and that something would forever be sunk deep in her belly...no matter how many times afterwards that she was fucked, his cock would always be there with the others. She would remember, and that would make him alive again...

Debbie's Point of View:

" Fuck me...Ooooooo...Ooooooh God! Ooo God! So good, so good." Debbie moans out, as Duke consummates the eternal claim he intends to make over body. Bodies joined as one flesh in the bond of desire, the author provides an intimate account of what is going on inside Debbie's mind and body:

In the white girl's face [Duke could see] the sudden and humiliating surrender of her whole being to a black boy who had snatched her off the street in the middle of the night and fucked the shit out of her, without ceremony, in the back seat of a car...now she was twisting and writhing beneath him unable to control at all her wild desire to be fucked and humiliated by that same black boy...Her nails, digging desperately in his back, slithered down and now dug demonically into his muscular thrusting buttocks, as they pounded down deep into her unprotected loins.

"I'm cumming! I'm cumming! She suddenly squealed with a high-pitched grasp of intense passion, and locked her ankles in a death grip behind his laboring back...Her body arched, she held tight to him quivering and jerking around him in a pulsating rhythm that spewed orgasmic fluid around his still hard driving cock and down the wide-split crevice of her ass, soaking his balls as they slapped hard into her tiny, puckered anus... Then with a deep soul shattering grunt that went on and on into her mouth, he exploded inside her, shooting his hot liquid sperm deep down into the liquid depths of her open and receptive womb.

CLIMAX OF THE SCENE

Of course, this scene ended differently in the movie, as money shots were considered necessary in porn movies in the 70s. Instead, movie Debby gets a huge load of sperm splashed all over her heaving belly.  As a fan of the movie and the book, the ending of this scene disappointed me most, and here's why. 

I was hoping we would get some "pillow talk" in which Debbie and Duke shared their thoughts about what happened just then between them. Had they come to feel like they were falling in love with each other? Did Debbie, out of growing attachment, try and talk Duke out of taking part in the Race War? Did Debbie, out of growing affection for Duke, start bonding with him on a Patty Hearst type level, becoming interested in changing sides and joining him in the Race War? And what were Debbie's thoughts of her fiancé Bill? Still engaged to him, in the moment did she feel any guilt about her willingly and joyfully experiencing the feeling of Duke's seed swimming inside her womb? Duke, a black gang leader, and the same man who had forcibly taken her virginity which she had been saving for Bill, only a mere 24 hours ago. 

Alas, we don't get much here, but at least we get more than is in the book. Duke is described as wanting to say nice words to her, to make her feel special, but that they come from two different worlds, he doesn't know the words to say. So he just pulls up the blanket over them and they fall asleep.

Hot Summer in the City Book Review (Part 2: The Book vs The Movie, Day 2, Chapter 3)

Chapter 3 starts off Day 2 virtually the same as in the movie, except Duke has retrieved both Debbie's bra and panties (In the movie, Debby's bra somehow stayed on her shoulders  during the onslaught of her body in the car) from the car. Duke presents them to an appreciative Debbie in what to her represents a moment of kindness and possible remorse. Here the book may have made a plot oversight, as Debbie's shoes (so pivotal later) remain in the gang's car. Debbie also is able to repair her dress with some pins and provide some coverage for her most feminine parts, which the author informs us are aching from the use she had been put to the night before. 

Debbie was tasked by the Duke to make the gang breakfast, something not shown in the movie. As they eat she scanned the room to re-examine her need to chose a man to attach herself to and try and obtain protection. Again, she determined that man should be Duke, because he was the gang's leader, and had shown her kindness that morning, and at times while inside the cabin last night.  In making her choice she observes she chose to date her boyfriend Bill in high school due to his being the most like her of all her male classmates, and how different  the terms were under which she was having to maker her choice of a man for her now. 

Right before the Mafia looking man ("The Man's" Representative in the movie) and Jodie arrive, Debbie over hears the men talking about a plan and riots. She sensed Duke seemed fearful and on edge, and pondered whether she would learn the reason for that when the guests arrived.

When they arrive, the Man's Rep is described as stocky, well dressed, and with Italian accent. Jodie is described just as the actress appears in the movie. Debbie is kneeling by the fireplace when they walk in the door and stays kneeling when Jodie confronts her for the first time, otherwise the dialogue is exactly the same as the movie. Oh and staying consistent, the HSIC movie producers decided to change Jodie's name just like Debbie's, as she is listed as "Jody" in the credits. 

THE MEETING: Here is where the book give us the most information not presented in the movie.  As Debbie observes the Man's Rep pay the gang $20K, Debbie connects him as representing a central organized group behind the riots, realizing that the race riots from last year were not spontaneous, but planned. We also learn that Shorty has been involved in this mysterious organization since it started, three years ago. 

Just as in the movie, Debbie is ordered into the kitchen to make sandwiches with Jodie. She confronts Debbie, warning her not to touch Duke, in the same dialogue as the movie. Duke then kindly tells Debbie to take a seat next to him and tells her she may want to "change sides" in the "war" after she see's the plans they have for the honkies in Detroit.

"Sit down baby and listen. You gonna see how the Great Race War of Nineteen hundred and sixty-seven really begins."

Debbie listens in fascination as the Man's rep lays out the plan. Two of Duke's men are expected to act drunk, break a window in a cleaning shop, then start a fight when cops show up, and then a third gang member is to function as an arsonist by throwing a Molotov cocktail into a nearby Supermarket.  Next, we learn that 20 rooms have been reserved for 25 Guerrilla Fighters, former Vietnam vets, trained in Cuba who will be Snipers using M-16s. There are also 40 additional rooms spread out over multiple buildings for the snipers to move to when their initial positions get identified, from which they will be shooting at policemen and firemen.  The Man anticipates these experts will  outmatch the police and green National Guardsmen, at least initially. Then, whenever significant resistance is encountered, the snipers have escape routes planned through the sewers. 

Duke is taken aback by the degree of firepower to be implemented and doesn't want to see his own people killed. The Man describes this as inevitable, just as in the movie.  Duke is further told that some blacks will be shot by snipers, so the government can be blamed and motive black communities to rise up, instead of waiting for "100 year too late promises" as the Man's rep stated.  The Man's rep then demands that Duke must follow the plan as he and the others had taken a pledge to follow the leaders of the organization. Then he offers Duke the opportunity to get out, stating he didn't believe any of his gang members would follow him. Duke, feeling humiliated from not having a greater role in the violence of the plan and sensing the remainder of his gang would stay committed, ultimately affirms he will stay a part of the plan. 

As the meeting continues Debbie is horrified and sees that the gang is being played to advance white interests. Namely she recognizes the objective is to create a barrier between blacks and whites and derail the civil rights movement.  Like in the movie, her conclusion is reached in part from her learning that the apparent leader of the organization was going to collect on a large insurance policy. Despite what the gang had done to her, she begins to feel empathy for the plight of her captors; still being discriminated against in society, and now being manipulated and used as potential cannon fodder for an unwinnable war.

As the Man's rep leaves, Duke cryptically states he will come down to Detroit tomorrow (only in the movie is night specified) to set things off. Then there is some idle drinking and sullen small talk made by the gang, as they contemplate what is apparently going to go down tomorrow and will place their lives at risk. There is also some leering at Debbie, which culminates in Coke asking for the use of the "honky chick" for the night. A frightened Debbie is given a reprieve by Duke's assertion that Debbie would be sleeping with him tonight. This then sets off Jodie who attacks Debbie, only to find herself being thrown off Debbie by Duke and punished by an order that she is to be raped by the gang, with Stitch instructed to go first. 

Here the author gives us a fascinating insight into the significance of this moment from Stitch and Jodie's perspective, and how it fueled the already intense hate Jodie had for Debbie into a towering inferno: 

"[Stitch had been given] the leader's girl, the one whom had always lorded it over him and teased him, in his idiotic ignorance and driven him half insane with her promising touches on his arm or a secret smile she had given, safe in the knowledge that he would never dare to touch her as long as she was Duke's girl...But now, now it had changed. She was a sheikh's favorite suddenly thrown in anger to the camel drivers whom she had teased and tormented from afar for so long."  

"A moment ago {Jodie] had been a proud and untouchable queen, the girl of the ghetto leader, but now she was just another piece of female flesh that would from now on be passed among them to be fucked and used as each of them in turn would so desire and when they would so desire. Her humiliation knew no bounds and she grunted and moaned beneath her wildly pumping attacker as though her world had suddenly ended."

"Duke baby, noooo make him stop, God, make him stop! 

Her face was contorted in pained disbelief at her sudden fall into the depths of gang whoredom from which she could never return. But Duke ignored her and sat silent. He had spoken and there was no more to be said. 

Unlike the movie, which shows Debby standing at Duke's side watching Jody's forcible violation and defilement, placement from which Jody found herself looking upon Debby as the newly ascendant queen who had taken her crown as the gang leader's girl; book Debbie remains kneeling on the floor at Duke's side as he sat down at the table to watch as Jodie' s fall from grace unfolds.  The author takes us inside Debbie's mind and brilliant unpacks her complex assessment of the circumstances at hand:

"Debbie could see the contempt on Duke's face as he calmly watched the battered and used body of the girl he had protected and called his own until a few moments before. There was no compassion in his eyes now, and Debbie sensed that tonight he was destroying all that he was leaving behind before he began the horrible holocaust that would result from his actions tomorrow in the ghetto."

Then after Jodie's ravishment had ended, the author describes how Debbie could feel her new antagonist's hate filled gaze: 

"Involuntarily she found her hand snaking across the floor by her side and closing over Duke's ankle. Her fingers closed around it in a silent prayer for protection from the hate-filled eyes of the dethroned Negress glaring at her. There was no one else to turn to, she had to hang on to him no matter what humiliation or degradation she would be exposed to. He was the only one with the strength and power to save her."  

For his part, Duke relishes the feeling of Debbie's hand clasped against his ankle and pats himself on the back for executing his plan for playing the women off of each her perfectly. Duke prides himself on knowing how to bring a girl to her knees, by taking the anger of an out of favor woman and using it to inspire fear in the newly ascendant one, who would come to feel completely dependent on him for maintaining her privileged and protected position.  He observed how it had worked again: 

"The little white bitch was groveling at his feet out of sheer terror of what would happen to her if he let the vanquished  Negress get at her. He would enjoy her tonight. Yes, he would take all she had to give and then some..."

Chapter 3 ends with Duke savoring these feelings and enjoying watching Shorty violate Jodie next, as Coke stands by "like a jackal waiting for his turn to feed on a wounded lioness." As in the movie, Debbie witnesses Shorty inspect Jodie's body, then forces her to her knees to give him head. For our heroine, her witness of  Jodie's violation would portend to her own violation, as the author explains so vividly at the end of Chapter 4: 

"He held her head in front of him with a strong vice like grip until he had emptied himself completely into the once proud queen's sperm filled mouth...His soft deflated cock slipped with a wet sucking noise from between her cum covered lips, a thin, stringlike trickle of white still connecting them together. The hallows of her throat worked for long moments afterwards, swallowing in great gulps the white fluid he had creamed into her throat.

Debbie's horrified mind was jerked suddenly from the lewd , obscene sight of the Negro's cumming into the helpless girl's mouth as a pair of hands reached under her armpits and suddenly lifted her from the floor where she lay. She was half aware of being drug across the rough pine-board floor toward the bedroom where, she realized, it was her turn to be fucked again into insensibility as she had been last night on the filthy unkept bed in the corner. She started to scream, but choked the sound down inside her chest by the sudden realization that if she did it would only make matters worse. She half struggled to her feet to ease the pain of her legs scaping against the floor and half walked, and half staggered in the arms of drunken, lust incited Duke to the bed where she knew she must pay her ticket to safety from the other two Negros, who were even now lifting the prostrate form of the used and humiliated Jodie to the bed for further and even more obscene acts of sexual depravity. 

Hot Summer in the City Book Review (Part 1: The Book vs The Movie, Day 1, Chapter 2)

Chapter 2 (Arriving at the Gang's Cabin): Unlike the movie where the cabin has electricity, the book's cabin is more like a shack and does not appear to have electricity. At the cabin, the gang is depicted as using kerosene lamps. In the movie, Stitch gets yelled at about possibly starting a fire due to leaving a light on, whereas book Stitch gets yelled at for not screwing in the kerosene lamp. There is also a fireplace, that is not seen in the movie cabin.

The conversation for the remainder of this evening at the cabin is pretty much verbatim to the screen play. This is actually of value because it helps you to understand what Duke is saying in the movie, as there are a few points where his words sound slurred or otherwise inaudible. Here are the ones I had trouble with: 

1. Duke responding to Shorty's question about what he is going to do about the "honky chick" who could get loose and blow the whole plan: She aint gonna git loose, well make sure of that, and besides, the big glow aint for two more days now, an' we'll worry 'bout her when the time comes."

- The reference to a big glow is an obvious reference to the planned Race Riot, but I have never heard that expression before and it sounded to me like Duke said "blow'." As Duke makes the reference to their "killing 100 honkies on Friday," this seems to make the evening of Debbie's kidnapping a Wednesday night. The movie, however, appears to make it a Saturday night when Bill says he will pick her up for Church the next day. Historically the riots began on a Sunday, so both dates are off, although it was possible that Duke was just giving Debbie misinformation.  I reconcile all this in my novel, but you will have to read it to see it:)

2.  Duke explaining to the gang why it is within his right to claim Debbie as "his chick": "I got the right, remember the Club rules. Chief Leopard gits first choice on all the spoils of war."

-This and other parts of the book allude to the gang being a part of a Club, one in which they have sworn an oath. I have not seen any historical references to the term "Chief Leopard" among the Black Panthers or any other Black Nationalist Group. 

3. Duke explaining the "Honky War" to the gang in response to Shorty's objection that Debbie was not a spoil of war, and that they had all seized her together:  "Man that's the honky war. You heard what cats like Stokley Carmichael and Rap Brown say: We're at war with them honkies. Why do you think we're heah boy? 

-In the movie Duke make an additional remark about a Cadilliac, but the only historical reference I can find is Rap Brown stating white people don't beat black people for owning a Cadillac, they beat them because they are black. I have no idea what point Duke is trying to make here, then again, he could just be drunk lol. 

After being led into the cabin, Debbie pays close attention to the banter between the gang. She picks up on the fact that it sounds as though they are involved in plotting some kind of civil unrest after hearing a remark about how last year's riot will be seen as small compared to what they are planning now. She makes a mental connection to last year's riots, reflecting how people are worried that they will start again with school ending in a few weeks. The reference to school being out seems out of place since the date of last year's biggest riot was August 11, 1966, and is remembered as the "Kercheval incident"). Unless of course Debbie was thinking about Summer School.

In the kitchen, Debbie has to heat water on a stove prior to doing dishes. Debbie sees a backdoor to the cabin from the kitchen but it is padlocked. Over the gas stove cooking the same famous pork chops and beans meal as in the movie, Debby blames her mother for her predicament and vows never to forgive her.

A damsel in distress with a flair for history, Debbie analogizes her situation to women in 1945 Berlin who were raped and accepted becoming the property of a Russian soldier whom they would ordinarily be repulsed by, simply for safety reasons. She tactically concludes she must do the same. As the men eat their dinner, she strategically evaluates each gang member, confidently concluding that with her beauty she could win any of them over to be her protector. She describes the men as they as the appear in the movie, although she feels most afraid of Stitch, whereas movie Debby appeared most petrified by Shorty (at least before Jody shows up!). 

Debbie quickly concludes Duke is the best candidate to be her protector. He's strong, clearly the group's
leader, and her female intuition is sensing he is already developing a soft spot for her, despite his having raped her in the car and slapped her after they arrived at the cabin. Debbie believes Duke is acting so dominant towards her (and to a lesser extent the others), as a means of maintaining his stature as the gang's leader. Debbie hopes during her captivity he will become nicer to her in private and become protective of her with the others. To accomplish this, she resolves to be completely subservient to Duke, and through her submission earn his favor and trust until she can escape. 

Card game- book vs. movie similarities and differences: During his poker challenge, book Duke makes Debbie strip naked in front of the fireplace as he prepares to offer her as his collateral for a game of poker. Debbie stands behind him nude during the poker game and watches her fate unfold. Movie Debby stayed dress during the game, which required a $50.00 buy-in, while the book's buy-in was only $5.00. Stitch however, apparently hard strapped for cash, had to borrow money in both instances. The last hand ends the same, Shorty beats Duke with 3 Kings over 3 Queens. 

Debbie's violation - book vs. movie similarities and differences: Other than Debbie's state of being nude during her beating, (Movie Debby still had her dress on, hence affording our heroine an extra layer of protection besides the blanket she's rolled into), Shorty's belt whipping of Debbie plays out basically the same in both versions. Debbie pleads that she doesn't deserve to be beaten, "I've tried to help. I've marched and everything." This likely refers to Debbie having been present at Martin Luther King's Walk of Freedom March in Detroit, on June 23, 1963, the summer before Debbie's freshman year of high school. 

Additionally, we learn that Debbie has also done sit-ins to protest big city housing laws and supported money drives for poor southern blacks, even though she lives in a small town where these issues don't exist. Debbie doesn't mention any of this though, believing the political aspect of her being beaten and impending rape is just an excuse for what animals like Shorty and his cohorts wanted to do anyway. 

Shorty's actual sexual assault of Debbie is much different than the movie, where she is forcibly put on her hands and knees and made to run a train with Coke in her mouth and Shorty violating her from behind. Instead, Shorty gives her a gentle and prolonged experience of oral sex. The reason? As Shorty mentally notes:

"She had passed the first stage of physical submission by violence and now the conquest of her mind and spirit must be accomplished by softness of touch."

Thankful for the physical beating having ended, Debbie's body actually responds as Shorty planned:

"They were no longer hurting her...There was only the light rising sensation of floating, floating on a soft-gentle fleece-covered cloud whose very warmth belied the presence of danger...She had geared her mind to the fighting of the pain and humiliation...but not softness and pleasure. She had not prepared for it." 

As the scene transitions from Shorty's giving Debbie some surprisingly pleasant feeling oral sex to the moment before she is roughly penetrated, the dark political and sociological motives of Shorty's mind are revealed:  

"Shorty could feel the thoughts running through her body and knew that he had won...He pried [her] wide open until all her crotch stood open and unprotected before him...his for the taking. ... He wanted to explode inside her white little belly with himself in rhythm to her own cries of fulfillment. He wanted to fill her with his hot nigger cum until she would never forget tonight as long as she lived. The spoiled little bitch, he'd stretch her so wide, she'd never even be able to feel one again. All the years he had spent in bitter subjugation himself began to bubble over in a boiling cauldron of hate and lust and the desire to hurt...

He ached all over from the thought of the lovely young white girl kneeling in abject servitude in front of him to be used as he would for as long as he could..."

Debbie's violation then mostly unfolds in the same manner of the book, although Coke watches Shorty for awhile before filling her mouth with his manhood. 

"She could feel him thrusting more sadistically now, the sight of her bucking body incited him to greater and greater effort. Her breath had become one long continuous groan that was no longer muffled by the filthy sheet. She was droning on the mattress so that he could look down on it and see with lust-gleaming eyes the effect he was having on her. Her lips opened and closed fishlike in torment, half in humiliation and shame from the sudden uncontrollable feeling surging through her, and half in fear she would be ripped asunder by the cruel hands coursing brutally over body..."

When Coke joins in we learn that his penis he's cramming into Debbie's mouth is between 7 and 8 inches long. Shorty and Coke climax inside Debbie's womb and mouth respectively, unlike the movie where external cum shots were seen, as common with X-rated movies of the time. The final moment involving Stitch is slightly different, as book Stitch begins to penetrate Debbie in the missionary position but is then thrown off of her by Shorty. Debbie then suffers one final indignity, watching through exhausted, hazy eyes, Shorty masturbate a load of his desire onto her breasts. 

"And then, there was nothing. As she drifted down into a welcome, protective cloak of sleep and exhaustion, just as she lay, too battered and lost to even put her legs together."