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Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina -- she's fearless. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul -- her life.

Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw

Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw

by Mark Bowden

A tour de force of investigative journalism-this is the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that would only end with his death. In an intense, up-close account, award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes details never before revealed about the U.S.-led covert... (more)

Bright Lights, Big City (Vintage Contemporaries)

Bright Lights, Big City (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Jay McInerney

The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.

Veronica: A Novel

by Mary Gaitskill

Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: One is a young model stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged office temp. Over the next twenty years their friendship will encompass narcissism and tenderness, exploitation and self-sacrifice, love and mortality. Moving seamlessly from present and past, casting a fierce yet compassionate eye on two eras... (more)

The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

by Neil Strauss

Whiskey and porn stars, hot reds and car crashes, black leather and high heels, overdoses and death. This is the life of Mötley Crüe, the heaviest drinking, hardest fighting, most oversexed and arrogant band in the world. Their unbelievable exploits are the stuff of rock 'n' roll legend. They nailed the hottest chicks, started the bloodiest fights, partied with the biggest drug dealers, and got to know the inside... (more)

Cocaine Nights

by J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard once again reveals his visionary mastery in this warped tale of the unexpected The setting for Cocaine Nights is the Costa del Sol and the stylish resort of Estrella de Mar. Into the queasy beauty of this artificial environment steps Charles Prentice, a travel writer from London who has come to visit his brother Frank, manager of the resort's Club Nautico. Frank is in jail, having confessed... (more)

I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie

I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie

by Pamela DesBarres

The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s is back in print in this new edition that includes an afterword on the author's last 15 years of adventures. As soon as she graduated from high school, Pamela Des Barres headed for the Sunset Strip, where she knocked on rock stars' backstage doors and immersed herself in the drugs, danger, and ecstasy of... (more)

Cocaine: An Unauthorised Biography

by Dominic Streatfeild

Cocaine has started wars, prompted invasions, embarrassed politicians, toppled governments, filled prisons, created billionaires, fuelled parties, bankrupted countries and taken thousands of lives. All because of a small, unremarkable-looking shrub. Dominic Streatfeild's highly-praised and comprehensive study examines the history of the world's most popular, most problematic drug, from its origins with the Incas,... (more)

Game Over: The Rise and Transformation of a Harlem Hustler

Game Over: The Rise and Transformation of a Harlem Hustler

by Azie Faison

A cautionary tale about the life of former kingpin Azie Faison, who has become the fabric of street legend Faison was a ninth grade dropout who earned more than $100,000 a week sellingcocaine in Harlem, New York, during the peak of America's "War on Drugs" between1983 and 1990. Faison, along with two partners, was an urban prince with cars, jewels, and people -- in awe of this million-dollar phenomenon -- at... (more)

Hollywood Crows: A Novel

by Joseph Wambaugh

When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they're just having some fun. But in Hollywood , nothing is ever what it seems. To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from the nefarious nightclub-owner Ali Aziz. What Nate and Bix don't know is that Margot's no helpless victim: the femme fatale is setting... (more)

Lefty's Story

by Raymond Francis

Lefty’s Story is a unique tale about money, love, dishonesty and greed based on the lives of cousins Lefty and Chris. Upon graduating from high school, the two young men’s lives change drastically. Various opportunities to make cash in the streets keep falling right into their laps, and they are definitely not the type to let any money get by them! Greed consumes the cousins. Things get even crazier when Chris... (more)

Snowblind : A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade

Snowblind : A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade

by Robert Sabbag

Snowblind is an all-out, nonstop, and now classic look at the cocaine trade through the eyes of smuggler Zachary Swan. In a brief Roman-candle career, Swan served an elegant clientele, traveling between Bogota and the nightclubs of New York, inventing intricate scams to outmaneuver the feds. Creating diversions that were characteristically baroque, surviving on ingenuity and idiot's luck, he discovered in... (more)

Snowblind

by Robert Sabbag

It tells the true story of legendary cocaine smuggler, Zachary Swan, whose exploits and scams in the sixties and seventies baffled police and customs officials alike. Robert Sabbag's riveting account of Swan's brief career provides a compulsive insight into the cocaine underworld in which all the double-dealing, crazy characters and paranoia are captured brilliantly. The combination of Sabbag's sandpaper dry wit... (more)

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

The controversial novel about a handsome serial killer who moves among the young and trendy in 1980s New York.

Cocaine: It's History, Uses and EffectsASHLEY RICHARD

Cocaine: It's History, Uses and Effects

by ASHLEY RICHARD

Champers: The Kid That Did

by Shane John Lloyd

A happy go-lucky kid who fought his way through life with a smile and an adventurous imagination. Wherever there was chaos you could usually find him in the middle of it. He worked most of his life in Clubs and Bar's in the West Midlands and surrounding area's up until the mid nineties when he moved to the Canary Islands to open his own nightclub 'Casa Loca' in Playa de Las Americas, Tenerife.After a... (more)

Notice (High Risk Books)

by Heather Lewis

As a young adult, she started to turn tricks in the parking lot of the local bar. Not because she needed the money, but because the money made explicit what sex had always been for her, a loveless transaction. A sadist takes her home to replay family dramas with his beautiful wife, and she becomes hopelessly drawn into their dangerous web, and eventually, ends up in more trouble than she ever bargained for.... (more)

House Rules (High Risk Books)

by Heather Lewis

"This utterly unexpected book dives straight into the chaos of an American adolescence, echoing the infernal laughter of William S. Burroughs as it probes the messier forms of sexual awakenings."- Details " House Rules . . . ventures off the map into an uncharted, quite terrifying strip of psychological badlands."- The Village Voice The narrator of Lewis' amazing first novel is 15-year-old Lee, whose... (more)

The Second Suspect

by Heather Lewis

Gabriel and Ingrid Santerre are a wealthy, highly connected couple with a savage kink: In the privacy of a posh New York City hotel suite, they like to subject teenage prostitutes to extremely rough sex. This time, though, they've gone too far, and their victim is dead. As Gabriel goes out to buy a golf bag to hide the body in, Ingrid, strangely passive and long brutalized by her husband, suddenly feels remorse... (more)

The Power of the Dog (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

The Power of the Dog (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Don Winslow

An explosive novel of the drug trade, The Power of the Dog , takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. Art Montana is an obsessive DEA agent. The Barrera brothers are heirs to a drug empire. Nora Hayden is a jaded teenager who becomes a high-class hooker. Father Parada is a powerful and uncorruptable Catholic priest. Callan is an Irish kid from Hell’s kitchen who... (more)

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by Mary Gaitskill

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by Azie Faison

by Joseph Wambaugh

by Raymond Francis

by Robert Sabbag

by Robert Sabbag

by Bret Easton Ellis

by ASHLEY RICHARD

by Shane John Lloyd

by Heather Lewis

by Heather Lewis

by Heather Lewis

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