Research Catalog

Title

Pill city : how two honor roll students foiled the Feds and built a drug empire / Kevin Deutsch.

Author

Deutsch, Kevin

Publication

• New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Description

xviii, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

• "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.

Alternative Title

How two honor roll students foiled the Feds and built a drug empire

Subject

• 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 control
• Drug dealers
• Drug traffic
• Medication abuse
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy
• TRUE CRIME
• TRUE CRIME / General
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement
• United States

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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."

ISBN

• 9781250110039
• 1250110033
• 9781250110046 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2016036712

OCLC

• 961423283
• SCSB-11722006

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library