A Dealer's Downfall - The Rise and Fall of a Budding Cocaine Empire

Pasquale De Marco

Beschreibung

In the heart of academia, where one would least expect to find vice, a group of Ivy League students succumb to the allure of easy money and embark on a perilous journey into the world of cocaine trafficking. Led by the ambitious and charismatic Larry Lavin, they establish a sophisticated drug empire that brings them immense wealth and power.

But as their operation expands, so does the danger. The FBI closes in, determined to bring down the young kingpins. Caught in a web of deceit and treachery, Larry and his cohorts must navigate a treacherous landscape of informants, undercover agents, and rival gangs, all while desperately trying to stay one step ahead of the law.

As the stakes rise and the walls close in, the true nature of their pursuit becomes clear. The pursuit of wealth and power corrupts their souls, turning them against each other and leading them down a path of self-destruction. Friendships are tested, loyalties are questioned, and the consequences of their actions reverberate through their lives and the lives of those around them.

In this gripping tale of ambition, greed, and the pursuit of the American Dream gone awry, the rise and fall of these Ivy League drug lords serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of succumbing to temptation and the devastating impact it can have on individuals and society as a whole.


If you like this book, write a review!

Verfügbar seit: 02.06.2025.

Drucklänge: 157 Seiten.

Weitere Bücher, die Sie mögen werden

Inside the Mind of John Wayne...

Brad Hunter

Brad Hunter has spent over thirty years writing about some of America's most horrific crimes. In this new book he enters the mind of John Wayne Gacy, the real-life 'Killer Clown', often said to be the inspiration for Stephen King's evil Pennywise in It. 
Gacy lured victims to his home with the promise of work or a warm bed and then duped them into putting on handcuffs, claiming he wanted to show them a magic trick. He would then rape and torture his victims before killing them by suffocating or strangling them. 
Twenty-six were buried in the crawl space beneath his home; others were buried elsewhere on his property, while a handful were dumped in the Des Plaines River. 
Gacy was executed for his crimes in 1994, but many questions remain unanswered. How many victims were there? Did Gacy act alone? And what drove John Wayne Gacy to murder? What caused the seemingly normal Gacy to sexually assault, torture and murder at least thirty-three young men and boys? 
Drawing on his many years' experience investigating and interviewing perpetrators of terrible crimes, Hunter seeks to understand what drove Gacy to unleash a reign of terror in suburban Chicago.

Zum Buch

Memorial Drive - A Daughter's...

Anonym

An Instant New York Times Bestseller  
A New York Times Notable Book  
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Esquire, Electric Literature, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and InStyle 
A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy 
 
At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. 
With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief as an entry point into understanding the tragic course of her mother’s life and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience. Moving through her mother’s history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a “child of miscegenation” in Mississippi, Trethewey plumbs her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985. 
 
Memorial Drive is a compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence but also a piercing glimpse at the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Animated by unforgettable prose and inflected by a poet’s attention to language, this is a luminous, urgent, and visceral memoir from one of our most important contemporary writers and thinkers.

Zum Buch

United States of True Crime:...

Ashley Hudson

United States of True Crime is an anthology series with books devoted to the most disturbing cases in each of the 50 states. This book focuses on twenty of the most chilling crimes in California history. 
True crime junkies may recognize some of the highly publicized cases, but also included are lesser-known, equally unsettling crimes. 
Some of the cases included in this book: 
Gerald and Charlene Gallego: Killer husband and wife duo who abducted young girls to use as sex slaves 
Kidnapping of Denise Huskins & Aaron Quinn: A young couple was kidnapped and then accused by law enforcement of faking the horrific ordeal 
Zebra Killers: Racially motivated murders of white citizens in San Francisco 
Juan Corona: Convicted of the murders of 25 migrant workers 
Mardiros Iskenderian: Murdered his mother and sister in a dispute over the family fortune 
Patrick Kearney: Serial killer who murdered at least 21 boys and disposed of their bodies in trash bags across Southern California 
Kevin James Woodward: Tech CEO who allegedly killed his roommate’s girlfriend out of jealousy 
Timothy Joseph McGhee: Ruthless gang leader responsible for at least twelve murders 
The Murder of Tushar Atre: Tech millionaire murdered by his employees 
Rodney Halbower: Another woman spent almost thirty years in jail for one of his grisly murders until the real murderer was finally convicted through DNA found at the scene 
If you’re a true crime enthusiast who enjoys reading about some of the most depraved monsters in our country, you will love United States of True Crime.

Zum Buch

Preacher's Girl - The Life and...

Jim Schutze

An "excellent true-crime study" of a female serial killer given the death penalty for poisoning at least three men between 1973 and 1989 (Publishers Weekly). 
 
 
 
Widowed Blanche Taylor Moore was about to lose her second spouse to symptoms that mysteriously mirrored those that killed her first husband—as well as her previous boyfriend. When an investigation reveals arsenic poisoning, the hideous truth about the wife and mother comes to light. Did the abuse Blanche suffered as a child at the hands of her alcoholic father turn her into a murderer she became? 
 
 
 
In this riveting true crime account, critically acclaimed journalist Jim Schutze explores the harrowing motivation and chilling details of the lives, loves, and victims of North Carolina's oldest living inmate on death row. 
 
 
 
Contains mature themes.

Zum Buch

Homicide Is My Business - Luigi...

Jerry Schmetterer, Michael...

The story of Luigi Ronsisvalle is an intimate look at the life of a professional killer. It is, in some ways, the story of all workingmen and women with ambition who never achieve their ultimate goal. But what makes Luigi unique is that, for him to achieve his goal, people had to die. His ambition, from when he was twelve years old, was to be a made man in the Mafia. He once told a presidential commission, "American child falls in love with baseball, I fall in love with Mafia." 
 
 
 
Coauthor Michael Vecchione spent months interviewing the hitman about his life in the Sicilian and American Mafia, finally becoming his confidant. Those days, weeks, and months together brought Luigi to realize that, despite the concept of omertà—the code of silence ingrained in him from an early age—the road to a truly honorable life meant turning on those he once admired. 
 
 
 
Luigi had done everything asked of him by his Mafia bosses. This included the murder of thirteen people. But unlike other hitmen, Luigi was denied the Mafia recognition he felt he deserved. Drawing on personal files, handwritten notes, and official sources, this book attempts to explain his complicated life. 
 
 
 
Contains mature themes.

Zum Buch

The Ring of Thoth

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Ring of Thoth is a tale of Fantasy, mystery, the supernatural and horror by the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Author Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Doyles were a prosperous Irish-Catholic family, who had a prominent position in the world of Art. Charles Altamont Doyle, Arthur's father, a chronic alcoholic, was the only member of his family, who apart from fathering a brilliant son, never accomplished anything of note. Charles had married Mary Foley, a vivacious and very well-educated young woman of seventeen. Mary had a passion for books and was a master storyteller. Her son Arthur wrote of his mother's gift of "sinking her voice to a horror-stricken whisper" when she reached the culminating point of a story. There was little money in the family and even less harmony on account of his father's excesses and erratic behavior After Arthur reached his ninth birthday, the wealthy members of the Doyle family offered to pay for his studies. He was in tears all the way to England, where for seven years he had to go to a Jesuit boarding school. It was during these difficult years at boarding school that Arthur realized he also had a talent for storytelling. He was often found, surrounded by a bevy of totally enraptured younger students, listening to the amazing stories he would make up to amuse them. Doyle died on July 7th, 1930, from heart disease. Besides the Sherlock Holmes stories, his other publications include non-fiction, plays, verse, memoirs, short stories, and several historical novels and supernatural and speculative fiction. The Lost World is perhaps the best known of his other fictional works.
.

Zum Buch