Pill city how two honor roll students foiled the Feds and built a drug empire

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 pi...

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Main Author: Deutsch, Kevin (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Edition: First edition.
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Summary: 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.
Physical Description: xviii, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-266).
ISBN: 9781250110039
1250110033
Author Notes: Kevin Deutsch is an award-winning crime writer and author of two books: The Triangle: A Year on the Ground with New York's Bloods and Crips , and Pill City : How Two Honor Roll Students Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire . A staff writer for the criminal justice journalism nonprofit Bronx Justice News , Deutsch hosts the crime podcast "A Dark Turn" on Authors on the Air Global Radio Network. He previously worked on staff at Newsday, the New York Daily News, The Miami Herald, The Palm Beach Post, and The Riverdale Press. His work has also appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Forward, Columbia Journalism Review, The Independent, the Orlando Sentinel, and The New York Post. Kevin specializes in journalism about street gangs and drug trafficking and has received multiple prizes for his writing about crime and national news events, including an Associated Press award for justice beat reporting. A graduate of Florida International University, Kevin has taught journalism at Queens College and Hofstra University.