18 books like Born Fi'dead

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The executioner's men George W. Grayson · 2012 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Drug traffic, Organized crime, True Crime with this book.
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Gangster warlords Ioan Grillo · 2016 · 377p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In southern Mexico, a meth maker is venerated as a saint while enforcing Old Testament justice on his enemies. A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part… Shares Drug dealers, Drug traffic, Organized crime, True Crime
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Big Shots Adam Shand · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 423p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares Organized crime, True Crime with this book.
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Hotel Scarface Roben Farzad · 2017 · ★ 4.5 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In the seventies, coke hit Miami with the full force of a hurricane, and no place attracted dealers and dopers like Coconut Grove's Mutiny at Sailboat Bay. It was a hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami's cocaine cowboys heyday-- and an inspiration for the film, Scarface. Three waves of Cuban immigrants vied to dominate the trafficking, but as the kilos-- and bodies-- began to pile… Shares Drug dealers, Drug traffic, True Crime
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El Narco Ioan Grillo · 2011 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in town squares. And it is all because a few Americans are getting high. Or is it? The United States throws Black Hawk helicopters, DEA assistance,… Shares Drug dealers, Drug traffic, Organized crime, True Crime
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How Gangs Work J. Densley · 2013 · 225p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "In the wake of the 2011 UK riots and the British government's new American-style 'war on gangs', this book is the definitive account of 'how gangs work'. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork with gangs and drawing on a variety of sources, How Gangs Work provides a vivid portrayal of gang life, but not as the British traditionally know it" -Back cover. Shares Gangs, Organized crime, True Crime
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Cocaína Magnus Linton · 2010 · ★ 4.0 · 275p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Describes the social, political, and economic effects of the illicit cocaine trade in Colombia since the death of Pablo Escobar, from the individual effect on destitute Colombian citizens to the nation's relations with its socialist Latin American neighbors. Shares Drug dealers, Drug traffic, True Crime
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Dead man running Ross Coulthart · 2008 · 405p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Steve Utah provides an account of his experiences as a member of the Bandidos, one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs, and discusses why he came to the decision to become a police informant, revealing details of the gang's operations in Australia and North America. Shares Organized crime, True Crime
Outlaws
Outlaws Adam Shand · 2011 Shares True Crime with this book.
The Billion-Dollar Molecule
The Billion-Dollar Molecule Barry Werth · 1994 · ★ 4.0 · 445p · ≈ 14h · Moderate The Billion-Dollar Molecule raises the curtain on the fascinating and tumultuous drama of a radically new start-up pharmaceutical company. That company, Vertex, is trying to design a lifesaving new drug that - if it works - will prove the potential of a brand-new drug-making technique and also fulfill the vision of Vertex's founder and chairman, Joshua Boger, one of the most promising scientists… Shares United States
Nice Girl
Nice Girl Rachael Jane Chin · 2011 Shares True Crime with this book.
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Badlands C. J. Box · 2015 · ★ 4.1 · 278p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Edgar Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box is back with a masterpiece of suspense set in a time and place that readers won't soon forget. Twenty miles across the North Dakota border, where the scenery goes from rolling grass prairie to pipeline fields, detective Cassie Dewell has been assigned as the new deputy sheriff of Grimstad-a place people used to be from, but were… Shares Drug dealers, Gangs, Drug traffic
Cover of Rich Man, Poor Man
Rich Man, Poor Man Irwin Shaw · 1970 · ★ 4.5 · 640p · ≈ 21h · Challenging A novel of two brothers from the end of World War II to the 1960's. The story of Rudolph, Gretchen, and Thomas Jordache, children of an embittered German immigrant. Nurtured on traditional views of American success, each pursues the illusion of happiness in his own way, determined to achieve his "birthright." Shares Social conditions, United States
Cover of The sixth family
The sixth family Lee Lamothe · 2008 · ★ 4.5 · 465p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Shares Drug traffic, Organized crime, True Crime with this book.
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ZeroZeroZero Roberto Saviano · 1656 · ★ 4.0 · 444p · ≈ 14h · Challenging A truly harrowing and groundbreaking synthesis of intimate literary narrative and geopolitical analysis of one of the most powerful dark forces in our economy. Saviano tracks the shift in the cocaine trade's axis of power, from Colombia to Mexico, and relates how the Latin American cartels and gangs have forged alliances, first with the Italian crime syndicates, then with the Russians, Africans,… Shares Drug traffic, Organized crime, True Crime
Terrorist-Criminal Nexus
Terrorist-Criminal Nexus Jennifer L. Hesterman · 2013 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "We are currently faced with a new national security challenge that is both vexing and complex. The once clear lines between the international drug trade, terrorism, organized crime, domestic terror, and Mexican drug cartels are blurring as groups increasingly join forces to further individual interests and goals. The synergistic potential of the alliance between nonstate actors and terrorists is… Shares Drug traffic, Organized crime, United States, True Crime
Presidents for Kids
Presidents for Kids Presidents For Kids · 2025 Shares United States with this book.
Cover of Last Yakuza
Last Yakuza Jake Adelstein · 2017 · ★ 4.4 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares True Crime with this book.

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