April 28, 2015, West Baltimore, Maryland: Ground Zero in America's Opiate Wars. In this crime-plagued section of the city, the death of Freddie Gray has triggered the worst domestic rioting since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and created a terrifying new breed of criminal entrepreneur. Here, as looters and arsonists lay waste to already blighted parts of Baltimore, two of the city's brightest students are helping to carry out a historic...

"Jake Bodine is a cash strapped private investigator, with a reputation for playing loosely with the law to achieve his client's objectives -- exactly what the FBI sought when they approached him with an extremely lucrative offer. His mission: infiltrate a European drug cartel and learn how they are secreting their illicit cargo into France, and on to the United States. Success will solve his financial problems, while failure will leave his corpse...

January, 2015 will mark a century of the war on drugs in the United States: one hundred years since the first arrests under the Harrison Act. Facing down this anniversary, Johann Hari was witnessing a close relative and an ex-boyfriend bottoming out on cocaine and heroin. But what was the big picture in the war on drugs? Why does it continue, when most people now think it has failed? The reporter set out on a two-year, 20,000-mile journey through...

It follows the story of two brothers who created the Black Mafia Family, the most prominent drug distribution network in American history.