Pill City - How Two Teenagers Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire (Paperback, Main Market Ed.)

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 . . . As gripping and compulsive as a thriller, Pill City takes us into the heat of the action as Brick and Wax outwit the FBI and DEA, gang members like Damage and Lyric live and die by their own brutal code, the cops battle to stop the carnage, and a high-school coach risks a bullet to get addicts into rehab. Even today the teens' identity has not been uncovered, and one is prospering in Silicon Valley. Award-winning criminal justice reporter Kevin Deutsch has interviewed all the key players and interweaves their stories to tell a gritty, hard-hitting story of survival in the Baltimore underworld.

General

Imprint:	Pan Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2017
Authors:	Kevin Deutsch
Dimensions:	196 x 131 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	288
Edition:	Main Market Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-5098-4330-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > True stories > Crime
LSN:	1-5098-4330-2
Barcode:	9781509843305

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