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  • Sex Money Murder

  • A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal
  • By: Jonathan Green
  • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
  • Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (33 ratings)
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Summary

Chronicling the rise and fall of Sex Money Murder, one of the most violent and notorious gangs of its era, and of the dedicated detectives and prosecutors struggling to stem the tide of violence, reporter Jonathan Green creates a visceral and devastating portrait of a New York City borough. 

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Bronx had one of the highest per capita murder rates in the country. The reason was simple: 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. Based on years of research and extraordinary access to former gang members, Green creates an epic character-driven narrative, drawing on first-person interviews, police reports, and court transcripts to offer a unique and engrossing work of gritty urban reportage. Magisterial in its scope, Sex Money Murder offers an extraordinary perspective on modern-day America.

©2018 Jonathan Green (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

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Fascinating and terrifying

Enlightening about the staggering scale of murder and mayhem related to the 80s crack epidemic in New York City.

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Fantastic !!!

One of the best books I have read, from start to finish a real life no holds barred story.

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overlong

overlong, hard to follow all the characters. shows a brutal, tedious existence among hood gangsters, disloyal to even their own friends, willing to literally stab each other in the back over ... Well, anything.
Overall, book is too long, repetitive and dull

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Really interesting story

First of all I can see that some would criticise the performance for having somebody who sounds like a white American reading the book but the fact it was written by a white English man negates that in my opinion.

Really well researched, accessible and put in context. I suspect this will be a book I come back to in a few months.

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brilliant

listened so quickly highly recommended and very independent obviously lots of research was done. No glamourising either

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brilliant

I've never listened to a book about the gang life in the hoods before an this one is brilliant very detailed and very real if u like this sort of gang related stuff this is the book for u

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Decent listen

Writer is typically white America biased other than that it’s well written. I must also mention that the narrator is hopeless at Ebonics.

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Excellent and thoroughly researched book.

Excellent and thoroughly researched book. Narrator is very good too. I strongly recommend this book.

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