Al-Saadiq Banks is a Best Selling Author of 18 urban fiction and street lit genre titles. Al- Saadiq Banks made his entrance into the literary world in 2002. Al-Saadiq Banks and his brother Naim Banks formed a publishing house under the imprint of True 2 Life Publications, using the first title, "No Exit," as a launching pad to knock the doors of the genre off the hinges, selling approximately 90,000 books the first year. His readership base widely respects him for penning True 2 Life, raw and uncut crime novels, which all take place in Newark, New Jersey, dating back from the 1980s to the current day. Al-Saadiq and True 2 Life Publications is that thin line where Fiction and Fact meet, and the lines blur and cross.