‘It won’t happen to me. That’s what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did – I got caught.’ Caught smuggling half a million euros’ worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan anti-drugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teques prison outside Caracas. There he was plunged into a nightmarish world of coke-fuelled killings, gun battles, stabbings, extortion and forced hunger strikes until finally, just over two years into his sentence, he gained early parole and embarked on a daring escape from South America . . . Aided by his extensive prison diaries, Keany reveals the true horror of life inside Los Teques: a shocking underworld behind bars where inmates pay protection money to stay alive, prostitutes do the rounds and vast amounts of cocaine are smuggled in for cell-block bosses to sell on to prisoners for huge profits. The Cocaine Diaries is a remarkable story, told by Keany with honesty, courage and even humour, despite knowing that every day behind bars might have been his last.

Contains all of Freud's "cocaine papers," his letters, notes, dreams, and recollections on the subject, together with the most pertinent writings from the 19th century to the present on Freud and cocaine. Bibliography: p. 399-400. Includes index.

A new anthology of cocaine stories from the creators of The Speed Chronicles—“Caution: these stories are addicting” (Harlan Coben). This ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon. Cocaine is the subject, the whys and whereofs in The Cocaine Chronicles, a collection of original short stories that are funny and harrowing, sad and scary, but at all times riveting. The Cocaine Chronicles contains tough tales by a cross-section of today’s most thought-provoking writers. Featuring brand-new stories by: Susan Straight, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Jerry Stahl, Nina Revoyr, Bill Moody, Emory Holmes II, James Brown, Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon, Kerry E. West, Donnell Alexander, Deborah Vankin, Robert Ward, Manuel Ramos, and Detrice Jones.

Sosa never allows himself to get attached to a woman in fear of someone using it against him. Since he's met Gucci Snow, every rule he's ever lived by has been broken. With his back against the wall and his newborn daughter in the hands of an enemy, for once in his life, he's no longer in control. Gucci's been a train wreck waiting to happen since he first met her. Will she be able to put someone other than herself first? Or will the temptation of a life style she's addicted to take her under for good? The Snow family has more skeletons than a graveyard, and Gucci is caught in the middle of a deadly web. When Snow's enemies can't get to him, they are willing to eliminate his entire bloodline. Will Gucci end up paying for her father's sins, or will she be able to survive amongst the wolves? Does Gucci deserve her happy ending, or will she fall victim to her reality? Only time will tell how the clock ticks in this final installment.

Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the co-founder of legendary Motley Crue offers an unflinching and gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction. When Motley Crue were at the height of their fame, there wasn't a drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent days - sometimes alone, sometimes with others addicts, friends and lovers - in a coke- and heroin-fuelled daze. THE HEROIN DIARIES reveals Nikki's personal diary entries alongside commentary from the people who know Nikki best including band mates Tommy, Vince and Mick. The book is a candid look at a nightmare come true: a punishing heroin addiction that brought Nikki to the edge of losing his talent, his career, his family and finally to a near-fatal overdose which left him clinically dead for a few minutes before being revived. Brutally honest, utterly riveting and shockingly moving, THE HEROIN DIARIES follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.

The crack cocaine years: from deviant globalization to the 'get money' culture of late twentieth-century America.

Kash spends the majority of her life doing what needs to be done to survive. Over the years, she makes several enemies who rejoice when the news spreads that she is dead. After spending time trapped in an alternate dimension of hell, she returns to the streets with a vengeance. Unaware of what happened to land her in her current mind state, she must dig deep into her troublesome past to figure out her next move. When she meets Wickit, all her plans are halted. They both share the same love for the dope game and have severe trust issues. As time passes and they are forced to deal with each other, they begin to develop a deep connection. Things are going good as they prepare to become the next queen and king of the Carolinas. When both their enemies from the past reappear, they find themselves in a deadly war for control of the streets. Find out what happens when an arranged relationship, predestined by forces neither party can understand, is tested. The stakes are high for both Kash and Wickit, and in order for either of them to survive, they need each other. Will they be able to overcome their treacherous ways and rise to the power they are destined to, or will the newfound king and queen fall from grace, destroying everything in the process?