What is money, exactly? Back in the day, before coins and cash and credit cards, we used to exchange goods and services based on perceived value. A bucket of corn for a day’s work. Two potatoes for a head of lettuce. A dime-bag of marijuana for a drink? According to… Read more
Leadfoot by Eric Beetner is the 2nd fast and furious thriller featuring the McGraws—a family who will transport anything you require and won't ask any questions. The Dukes of Hazzard. “Thunder Road.” White Lightning. The moonshine-running driver hitting the backroads with suped-up Detroit iron and a trunkful of corn liquor,… Read more
The More They Disappear by Jesse Donaldson takes us to the front lines of the battle against small-town drug abuse in an unnerving tale of addiction, loss, and the battle to overcome the darkest parts of ourselves (Available August 2, 2016). When long-serving Kentucky sheriff Lew Mattock is murdered by a confused,… Read more
The More They Disappear by Jesse Donaldson takes us to the front lines of the battle against small-town drug abuse in an unnerving tale of addiction, loss, and the battle to overcome the darkest parts of ourselves (Available August 2, 2016). I grew up in the 80's during the “Just Say… Read more
The Jones Men was a thrilling novel to discover. A lost “cult” novel from the 1970s, written by veteran journalist Vern E. Smith, it is a story of the drug trade on the streets of Detroit, and it absolutely blew me away when I read it forty years after its… Read more
In 1970, TV gave us the tale of a spunky, single young woman who moves to the big city and finds career success, friendship, and love, while rising through a cutthroat business and having to navigate the many men in her work and private lives. Her name was Mary, and… Read more
Snatched by Bruce Porter—author of the NYT bestseller Blow—is the true story of a woman caught between two worlds, as she goes from a drug queen to an informer to a hostage (Available April 19, 2016). Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with… Read more
I hide in plain sight, same as you. And hiding in this awesome Breaking Bad-inspired Los Pollos Hermanos fry batter mini-replica tub is 60g of Blue Sky, 99.1% chemically pure crystal methamphetamine candy, made by TheRainbowSensation. Once you’ve finished the candy, you’ve got a nice souvenir to display and a… Read more
I can still remember the first time I saw the trailer for Colombiana. I can't remember the movie I was actually in the theater to see at the time, strangely enough, but I remember that trailer: the frenetic cuts, the percussive beats of the action and dialogue, the indelible image… Read more
Takedown: A Small-Town Cop's Battle Against the Hells Angels and the Nation's Biggest Drug Gang by Jeff Buck, with Jon Land and Lindsay Preston, is the harrowing account of one cop's work to uncover a complex chain linking the Hells Angels biker gang to the Russian Mafia in a plot… Read more
