American cartel : inside the battle to bring down the opioid industry
by Higham, Scott (Author), Horwitz, Sari (Author)
Summary
"American Cartel is an unflinching and deeply documented dive into the culpability of the drug companies behind the staggering death toll of the opioid epidemic. It follows of a small band of DEA agents led by Joe Rannazzisi, a tough-talking New Yorker who had spent a storied 30 years bringing down... Full description
- Part one: This is war
- Prologue
- Joe Rann
- Dr. Evil
- Lightning strike
- The alliance
- "We will not get fined again!"
- The blue highway
- "Just like Doritos"
- Follow the pills
- "Pillbillies"
- Broward County north
- "Game, set, match"
- A betrayal
- Cardinal knowledge
- "Because I'm the Deputy Attorney General"
- Imminent danger
- "At the corner of happy & healthy"
- "Crisis playbook"
- Marsha and Tom
- Playing games
- "Tom Marino is trying to do that?"
- "Be Zen"
- "You're being paranoid"
- "The best case we've ever had"
- The mushroom treatment
- An expensive speeding ticket
- Banjo
- Part two: The reckoning
- A public nuisance
- "Our allies"
- "They're gonna get hammered"
- On the road
- Field of dream
- "The hunt is on"
- "Make them pay"
- Legal titans
- The drug czar
- Jumped the gun
- "This is horrific"
- "Tear each other up"
- A Perry Mason moment
- The death star
- The digital detectives
- The magician
- The 60 Minutes man
- A lone lawyer
- My cousin Vinny
- RICO
- "We have a deal"
- "This can't be real"
- "Every nineteen minutes"
- "We're going to trial"
- Death threats
- "A stunning claim"
- "Are you ready?"
- "Magic or tragic"
- Epilogue.