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A searing portrait of the crack epidemic and violent drug wars that once ravaged the South Bronx.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the South Bronx had one of the highest per capita murder rates in America. As the use of crack cocaine surged, replacing heroin as the high of choice, dealers and gangs staked claims to territory and consumers through intimidation and murder, and families found themselves fractured by crime and incarceration.
Chronicling the rise and fall of Sex Money Murder, one of the most violent gangs of its era, in this engrossing work of gritty urban reportage, Jonathan Green offers a visceral and devastating portrait of a New York City borough going down in flames, and of the detectives and prosecutors struggling to stem the tide of violence. Drawing on first-person interviews, police reports and court transcripts, Sex Money Murder, gives an extraordinary perspective on modern-day America.
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Green's insights into a culture unavailable to most readers are invaluable...A disturbing yet necessary, significant book by a journalist willing to place himself in danger.
Doesn't pull any punches....Green's portraits of the good guys and the bad guys are richly layered and compelling: this is no simple cops-and-robbers story. It's a story about an entire way of life and the way people on both sides of the law have been affected by it. A fine piece of crime nonfiction.
Exceptionally authentic.--Jill Leovy
Sex Money Murder is a ferocious and long-overdue piece of true storytelling about a time and a place that saw the worst of the dope business. Within it are remarkable tales of faith in a standard, friendship or what passes for it, greed, decay, the worst and the best of America.--Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
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Doesn't pull any punches....Green's portraits of the good guys and the bad guys are richly layered and compelling: this is no simple cops-and-robbers story. It's a story about an entire way of life and the way people on both sides of the law have been affected by it. A fine piece of crime nonfiction.
Exceptionally authentic.--Jill Leovy
Sex Money Murder is a ferocious and long-overdue piece of true storytelling about a time and a place that saw the worst of the dope business. Within it are remarkable tales of faith in a standard, friendship or what passes for it, greed, decay, the worst and the best of America.--Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Jonathan Green is an award-winning journalist and author. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Men's Journal, Garden and Gun, Fast Company, the Financial Times Magazine, and British GQ and Esquire. He lives in Massachusetts.
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