Pill City
How Two Honor Roll Students Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire
New York : St. Martin's Press, [2017]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xviii, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
"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.
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."
Subjects:
Drug traffic -- United States -- Case studies.
Drug dealers -- United States -- Case studies.
Medication abuse -- United States -- Case studies.
Drug control -- United States -- Case studies.
Drug traffic -- United States -- Case studies.
Drug dealers -- United States -- Case studies.
Medication abuse -- United States -- Case studies.
Drug control -- United States -- Case studies.
ISBN:
9781250110039 (hardcover)
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Includes bibliographical references.