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22%OFFKevin Deutsch - Pill City: How Two Teenagers Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire - 9781509843305 - V9781509843305
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Pill City: How Two Teenagers Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire

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Description for Pill City: How Two Teenagers Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JMG; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 2. Weight in Grams: 208.
Meet Brick and Wax, two bright eighteen-year-olds looking for a route out of poverty. When Baltimore was engulfed in riots in 2015 they helped loot pharmacies, stealing over $100 million worth of opiates. The plan: to use their gang connections and programming skills to set up a high tech drug delivery service. The result: the teens became America's youngest drug lords, in the process sparking bloody gang warfare and a nationwide wave of addiction and murder. Now mixing in deadly circles, Brick and Wax soon found their own lives were on the line . . . ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509843305
SKU
V9781509843305
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Kevin Deutsch
Kevin Deutsch is an award-winning criminal justice writer for Newsday and previously worked on the staff of the New York Daily News, the Miami Herald and the Palm Beach Post. He is the author of The Triangle: A Year on the Ground with New York's Bloods and Crips and Pill City. Kevin teaches journalism at Queens College and lives in ... Read more

Reviews for Pill City: How Two Teenagers Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire
America's urban crisis has never been more alive, more shocking, than in Pill City. Reminiscent of HBO's The Wire, Kevin Deutsch's stunning investigation show how a $100 million fortune in opiates - heroin and pills - was stolen during the 2015 Baltimore riots following the death of Freddie Gray and then spread and sold illegally across the nation,compounding one tragedy ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Pill City: How Two Teenagers Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire


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