Pill city : how two honor roll students foiled the Feds and built a drug empire
Title:
Pill city : how two honor roll students foiled the Feds and built a drug empire
JLCTITLE245:
Kevin Deutsch.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : St. Martin's Press, [2017]
Physical Description:
xviii, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781250110039
Abstract:
"An award-winning crime reporter describes how two high school honor-roll students used gang connections to loot pharmacies and sell narcotics through delivery drivers using location-based technology and even formed an alliance with the Mexican drug cartel headed by El Chapo, "--NoveList.
April 28, 2015, West Baltimore, Maryland. As looters and arsonists lay waste to already blighted parts of Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray, two of the city's brightest students are helping to carry out a historic drug robbery spree-- and flood the city with highly addictive pain pills and heroin. Their plan is to use their gang connections and computer programming skills to set up a high tech drug delivery service and Dark Web marketplace. They became America's youngest drug lords, in the process sparking bloody gang warfare and a nationwide wave of addiction and murder.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
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Contents:
The rising plague. "An Uber of drug dealing" ; "Getting paid" ; "The United States of addiction" ; "The purge" ; "Playing from behind" ; "Boulevards of pain" ; "Sinners" -- Jimmy's world. "Supercartel" ; "Brother's keeper" ; "Expansion" -- The fallen. "They changed the game" ; "Freelancers" ; "The MASH unit" ; "Generation pill" ; "The interrupters" ; "Going dark" ; "A deadly migration" -- Taking stock. "Murdertown, USA" ; "Sky's the limit" ; "Civs" ; "Making a stand" -- New beginnings. "Clean money" ; "Starting fresh" ; "Loose ends" ; "Brave folks" ; "Trapped" ; "Best city in the world" -- "A Marshall Plan for addiction."