Drug Gang The Most Compelling Controversial Crime Thriller In Years

Author : Neil Walker
Publisher : Drug Gang Trilogy
ISBN 13 : 9781720207283
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drug Gang: The Most Compelling & Controversial Crime Thriller in Years written by Neil Walker and published by Drug Gang Trilogy. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Definitely a great read for crime fiction fans!" Unlimited Book Reviews "The twist at the end caught me so off guard. Very well written." Goodreads Drug Gang is the heart-stopping & unputdownable bestselling crime thriller. DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES? ENTER THE DRUG GANG... What would you be prepared to do to have everything you ever wanted? How far would you go and where would you draw the line? These are the questions facing John Kennedy, a young man with a mysterious past from Belfast - Northern Ireland, when he arrives in Manchester in the summer of 2001 and finds the sinister but exciting world of drug gang The Brotherhood... This twisty urban crime thriller takes us into the violent underbelly of organized crime in England in the early 2000s and contains drug dealing, robbery and vengeful murder. LOVE JOHN WICK? MEET JOHN KENNEDY! "Breaking Bad meets John Wick. The chief protagonist in the series is Belfast-born, morally malleable anti-hero John Kennedy who gets sucked into the murky underworld of the lucrative drug scene." The Irish Post "John Kennedy is a character who is alive to the many, many readers who have followed his story." The BBC Arts Show "John is like a Bryan Mills, John Wick, kind of hybrid, but he is a true hard man in his own right." Alex J Book Reviews "Highly readable combination of lean prose, tight plotting and wince-inducing ultra-violent mayhem...daringly near-the-knuckle." The Irish News "Do you like violent movies like John Wick? Then pick this book up!" Briar's Reviews An absolutely gripping thriller that fans of DON WINSLOW, STIEG LARSSON or MARTINA COLE won't be able to put down. "This book is a tour de force. It's a massively cool, urban, dark, powerful, disturbing and shocking book. It's got its Quentin Tarantino vibe, you think Natural Born Killers, Reservoir Dogs, there is talk of John Woo, and his style is also all over this book. This should be made into a movie. If you have any love for the 90s, for the music of that time, for the drug culture and the movies, get this book. I need the next 2 parts in the trilogy right now!" Alex J Book Reviews "An interesting and refreshing read. Not for the fainthearted and if you're ready to dive into the crime world, so be it." One Word Too Much "Dark, moody and atmospheric. Compelling read from a fantastic new author!" Amazon "The storytelling really caught me. Definitely worth a read!" Iridescent Books Blog "Thoroughly enjoyed this well written book, the style of writing allowing me to become easily immersed in the story." Goodreads "Fantastic ending and I will definitely be wanting to see where this goes from here." Amazon

Author : Sheldon Yavitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781470058852
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jungle of His Choosing written by Sheldon Yavitz and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Miami criminal defense attorney is deep into drugs, money laundering, kinky sex, and murder in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Washington, DC, the Bahamas, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Venezuela, and Sint Maarten.A tantalizing story ... A genuine page-turning suspense novel with action drifting from Miami to Colombia to Cuba to Haiti to the Bahamas ... Sheldon Yavitz etches each character with blunt detail, driven by terrific plot twists that hold the reader riveted to the spectacular story, and presents an intriguing gestalt so shockingly typical of the world of drug-trafficking and brutal sex. No one is more qualified than Yavitz to offer such an authoritative and compelling look into today's society depicting the lifestyle of Stanton Pollard, the controversial, dapper Miami criminal defense attorney, and his cohorts.Sheldon Yavitz wrote this 740-page novel as a cross between reality and fiction, tempered by time and perspective. The author, semi-retired now, was a criminal defense lawyer for 26 years whose career was terminated by a federal prison sentence. He writes from experience, and while put away - that gave him time - he wrote this story. Though the manuscript lingered for more than 10 years, he now shares this story with us, ripe for our time.Here's another aspect of this novel: it's a historical work depicting a period that no longer exists. During the 1980s, economic hardships and the drive to make money were catalysts for Americans to enter the ugly drug trade. The result? As depicted in the book, in the end they did not benefit - they wound up dead or in jail, and people from other lands took over. Only one, the journalist in pursuit of telling the novel's main character's story, winds up living the good life. However, think of it, he's corrupt, too. There's not a single character in this novel - all touched by the world of crime - who had a happy life.

Author : Julian Rubinstein
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374713472
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Holly written by Julian Rubinstein and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist’s dramatic account of a shooting that shook a community to its core, with important implications for the future On the last evening of summer in 2013, five shots rang out in a part of northeast Denver known as the Holly. Long a destination for African American families fleeing the Jim Crow South, the area had become an “invisible city” within a historically white metropolis. While shootings there weren’t uncommon, the identity of the shooter that night came as a shock. Terrance Roberts was a revered anti-gang activist. His attempts to bring peace to his community had won the accolades of both his neighbors and the state’s most important power brokers. Why had he just fired a gun? In The Holly, the award-winning Denver-based journalist Julian Rubinstein reconstructs the events that left a local gang member paralyzed and Roberts facing the possibility of life in prison. Much more than a crime story, The Holly is a multigenerational saga of race and politics that runs from the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter. With a cast that includes billionaires, elected officials, cops, developers, and street kids, the book explores the porous boundaries between a city’s elites and its most disadvantaged citizens. It also probes the fraught relationships between police, confidential informants, activists, gang members, and ex–gang members as they struggle to put their pasts behind them. In The Holly, we see how well-intentioned efforts to curb violence and improve neighborhoods can go badly awry, and we track the interactions of law enforcement with gang members who conceive of themselves as defenders of a neighborhood. When Roberts goes on trial, the city’s fault lines are fully exposed. In a time of national reckoning over race, policing, and the uses and abuses of power, Rubinstein offers a dramatic and humane illumination of what’s at stake.

Author : P. Christopher David
Publisher : P. Christopher David
ISBN 13 : 1393190677
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This London Life written by P. Christopher David and published by P. Christopher David. This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This London Life is a London Gangland story. Billy Kelly and Jimmy Walsh are childhood friends and business partners, they have grown up on the tough streets of South London in very different circumstances, but from similar backgrounds in Irish immigrant families. When they are ordered by local Gangland Boss, Jack Riordan, to carry out a hit on a rival North London firm Jimmy accepts willingly. Billy tries to convince Jimmy not to do the job. After being double-crossed by Riordan the two friends lives take different paths as Jimmy starts a long prison sentence and Billy is forced to go on the run, leaving behind everyone he loves and holds dear. This London Life tells the story of two young men’s troubled and often violent lives as it unfolds through two decades between 1983-2004. The story culminates in a bloody and tragic ending as the ghosts of both men's lives come back to haunt them. This London Life will make you laugh, and it will make you cry in this story of friendship, loyalty, betrayal, revenge and lost love.

Author : Don Winslow
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062664425
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Force written by Don Winslow and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instant New York Times Bestseller Best of 2017 - included on best-of lists by the New York Times, NPR, Barnes & Noble, Publisher's Weekly, LitHub, BookPage, Booklist, TheRealBookSpy.com, the Financial Times (UK) and the Daily Mail (UK) “The Force is mesmerizing, a triumph. Think The Godfather, only with cops. It’s that good.” — Stephen King The acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling author of The Cartel—voted one of the Best Books of the Year by more than sixty publications, including the New York Times—returns with a cinematic epic as explosive, powerful, and unforgettable as Mystic River and The Wire. Our ends know our beginnings, but the reverse isn’t true . . . All Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. He is “the King of Manhattan North,” a, highly decorated NYPD detective sergeant and the real leader of “Da Force.” Malone and his crew are the smartest, the toughest, the quickest, the bravest, and the baddest, an elite special unit given unrestricted authority to wage war on gangs, drugs and guns. Every day and every night for the eighteen years he’s spent on the Job, Malone has served on the front lines, witnessing the hurt, the dead, the victims, the perps. He’s done whatever it takes to serve and protect in a city built by ambition and corruption, where no one is clean—including Malone himself. What only a few know is that Denny Malone is dirty: he and his partners have stolen millions of dollars in drugs and cash in the wake of the biggest heroin bust in the city’s history. Now Malone is caught in a trap and being squeezed by the Feds, and he must walk the thin line between betraying his brothers and partners, the Job, his family, and the woman he loves, trying to survive, body and soul, while the city teeters on the brink of a racial conflagration that could destroy them all. Based on years of research inside the NYPD, this is the great cop novel of our time and a book only Don Winslow could write: a haunting and heartbreaking story of greed and violence, inequality and race, crime and injustice, retribution and redemption that reveals the seemingly insurmountable tensions between the police and the diverse citizens they serve. A searing portrait of a city and a courageous, heroic, and deeply flawed man who stands at the edge of its abyss, The Force is a masterpiece of urban living full of shocking and surprising twists, leavened by flashes of dark humor, a morally complex and utterly riveting dissection of modern American society and the controversial issues confronting and dividing us today.

Author : Kevin Deutsch
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250110041
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pill City written by Kevin Deutsch and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, Baltimore plunged into the worst American riots in recent history. In the chaos, two high school honor-roll students, “Brick” and “Wax, used their smarts, computer skills, ambition and gang connections to change the world of illegal drugs forever. With their gang associates, they looted pharmacies and robbed dealers, stealing over one million doses of prescription narcotics and heroin with a street value of more than $100 million. “Brick” and “Wax” were not going to sell drugs on corners; they used location-based technology and encrypted messaging software to dispatch ordered drugs via delivery drivers—an Uber-like service that eliminated street deals and easily tapped phones. They were soon supplying cities along the East Coast, creating a whole new class of opioid addicts with the FBI and DEA trailing in their wake. To ensure their supply of drugs did not run out, the teens formed an alliance with members of the Sinaloa cartel, headed by El Chapo. Veteran Newsday crime reporter Kevin Deutsch has been reporting on the ground in drug-ravaged neighborhoods for over a year. He’s seen the bodies. Across America, thousands are dying from opioid overdoses. This middle-class crisis has been well documented, but the inner cities, where families are being swallowed up by addiction, have been ignored. Deutsch brings us into this underworld, where social unrest and cutting-edge technology allow criminals to seed the next wave of dysfunction and despair.

Author : Jill Leovy
Publisher : One World/Ballantine
ISBN 13 : 0385529988
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghettoside written by Jill Leovy and published by One World/Ballantine. This book was released on 2015 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discusses the hundreds of murders that occur in Los Angeles each year, and focuses on the story of the dedicated group of detectives who pursued justice at any cost in the killing of Bryant Tennelle"--Publisher's description.

Author : Jason Ryan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762767995
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jackpot written by Jason Ryan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1970s and early '80s, a cadre of freewheeling, Southern pot smugglers lived at the crossroads of Miami Vice and a Jimmy Buffett song. These irrepressible adventurers unloaded nearly a billion dollars worth of marijuana and hashish through the eastern seaboard’s marshes. Then came their undoing: Operation Jackpot, one of the largest drug investigations ever and an opening volley in Ronald Reagan’s War on Drugs. In Jackpot, author Jason Ryan takes us back to the heady days before drug smuggling was synonymous with deadly gunplay. During this golden age of marijuana trafficking, the country’s most prominent kingpins were a group of wayward and fun-loving Southern gentlemen who forsook college educations to sail drug-laden luxury sailboats across the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Caribbean. Les Riley, Barry Foy, and their comrades eschewed violence as much as they loved pleasure, and it was greed, lust, and disaster at sea that ultimately caught up with them, along with the law. In a cat-and-mouse game played out in exotic locations across the globe, the smugglers sailed through hurricanes, broke out of jail and survived encounters with armed militants in Colombia, Grenada and Lebanon. Based on years of research and interviews with imprisoned and recently released smugglers and the law enforcement agents who tracked them down, Jackpot is sure to become a classic story from America's controversial Drug Wars. “The adventures, the long-gone economy, and the sting that ultimately brought them down and changed US drug policy are meticulously documented and lucidly spun…. Part New Yorker feature-part Jimmy Buffet song. . . . The result is adventuresome, lavish, informative fun.” —GQ “[A] rollicking story, Ryan manages to pack in one amusing tale after another.... Jackpot is a rip-roaring good read.” —Charleston City Paper “High times on the high seas: Investigative reporter Ryan recounts the glory days of dope smuggling and their terrible denouement.... A well-told tale of true crime that provides a few good arguments for why it should not be a crime at all.” —Kirkus Reviews “Reads like an international thriller. . . . chock-a-block with hilarious and hair-raising anecdotes of fast times.” —New York Journal of Books “[A] thoroughly researched account of Operation Jackpot, the drug investigation that ended the reign of South Carolina’s ‘gentlemen smugglers,’.... Ryan recreates the era with a vivid, sun-drenched intensity.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Karin Slaughter
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062858947
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book False Witness written by Karin Slaughter and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "There's deception, sabotage, violence, family secrets . . . all the stuff you could want from a fictional page-turner."— theSkimm Recommended by Washington Post • theSkimm • GMA.com • Popsugar • Bustle • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • Augusta Chronicle • Sun-Sentinel • Mystery and Suspense Magazine • and more! He saw what you did. He knows who you are… From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her and The Silent Wife, an electrifying standalone thriller. AN ORDINARY LIFE… Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She’s an up-and-coming defense attorney at a prestigious law firm in Atlanta, would do anything for her sixteen-year-old daughter Maddy, and is managing to successfully coparent through a pandemic after an amicable separation from her husband Walter. HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST... But Leigh’s ordinary life masks a childhood no one should have to endure … a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and ultimately destroyed by a brutal act of violence. BUT NOW THE PAST IS CATCHING UP… On a Sunday night at her daughter’s school play, she gets a call from one of the firm's partners who wants Leigh to come on board to defend a wealthy man accused of multiple counts of rape. Though wary of the case, it becomes apparent she doesn't have much choice if she wants to keep her job. They're scheduled to go to trial in one week. When she meets the accused face-to-face, she realizes that it’s no coincidence that he’s specifically asked for her to represent him. She knows him. And he knows her. More to the point, he may know what happened over twenty years ago, and why Leigh has spent two decades avoiding her past. AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT. Suddenly she has a lot more to lose than this case. The only person who can help is her younger, estranged sister Callie—the last person Leigh would ever want to drag into this after all they’ve been through. But with the life-shattering truth in danger of being revealed, she has no choice... “A high-stakes thriller . . . Her heroines are believable, flawed and courageous.” –OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE

Author : Bryn Greenwood
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250074134
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Ugly and Wonderful Things written by Bryn Greenwood and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Struggling to raise her little brother Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star-gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold. By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery"--