From Boy Scout to assassin - the true confessions of a ca...From Boy Scout to assassin - the true confessions of a cartel hitman
At the age of twelve Martin Corona started dealing drugs. After years in and out of prison, he rose through the ranks to be...
From the international bestselling auhor of Gomorrah, thi...From the international bestselling auhor of Gomorrah, this searing exposé of dirty money and the drug trade reveals how they are at the heart of our lives, our economy, and our world.
'The mos...
“Gato’s head snapped back... We could make out the shots ...“Gato’s head snapped back... We could make out the shots of several 9mms, a couple of 38s and one or two 45s. I hurled myself through the doorway and into the room. I didn’t look back”
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The story of cigars. „The most futile and disastrous day ...The story of cigars. „The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Cigar.” Evelyn Waugh Exploring not just the extraordinary story...
By the author of the Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller The Et...By the author of the Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller The EtymologiconAlmost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunke...
Meet Brick and Wax, two bright eighteen-year-olds looking...Meet Brick and Wax, two bright eighteen-year-olds looking for a route out of poverty. When Baltimore was engulfed in riots in 2015 they helped loot pharmacies, stealing over $100 million worth of...
The sensational German bestseller on the overwhelming rol...The sensational German bestseller on the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich, from Hitler to housewives.
The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Ye...
'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in m...'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow
'A huge contribution... remarkable' Antony Beevor, BBC RADIO 4
'Extremely interesting ... a serious piece of sch...
The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billio...The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom - and almost got away with it. In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old programmer named Ross Ulbricht ...
Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953,...Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen....
Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and night...Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions he experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum, Thomas De Quincey's legendary account of the pleasures and ...
From Timothy Leary's first trip (on psilocybin) in Mexico...From Timothy Leary's first trip (on psilocybin) in Mexico in 1960, his life;s work became exploring and preaching the benefits - social, aesthetic and spiritual - that psyche-delic drugs had to o...
In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 ...In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the f...