The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History - Brossura

Higdon, James

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1493038494 ISBN 13: 9781493038497

Casa editrice: Lyons Pr, 2019

Riassunto

<span><span>The national bestseller about the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history - a band of Kentucky farmers descended from Prohibition-era moonshiners. Tracked down by the Law, their leader was finally captured in 2017 and brought to justice in March, 2018. And thereby hangs a tale....</span></span>

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Informazioni sull?autore

<span>JAMES HIGDON has worked for </span><span style="font-style:italic;">the Louisville Courier Journal, the New York Times</span><span>, and <br>PBS Frontline&rsquo;s Tehran Bureau; contributed material to The Prairie Home Companion;<br>and researched the NYPD for the police drama series NYC-22. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.</span>

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<div>In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates as the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, also known as&#160;the Cornbread Mafia.</div><div><br>Author James Higdon&#8212;whose relationship with Johnny Boone, currently a federal fugitive, made him the first journalist subpoenaed under the Obama administration&#8212;takes readers back to the 1970s and &#8217;80s and the clash between federal and local law enforcement and a band of Kentucky farmers with moonshine and pride in their bloodlines. By 1989 the task force assigned to take down men like Johnny Boone had arrested sixty-nine men and one woman from busts on twenty-nine farms in ten states, and seized two hundred tons of pot. Of the seventy individuals arrested, zero talked.&#160;How it all went down is a tale of Mafia-style storylines emanating from the Bluegrass State, and populated by Vietnam veterans and weed-loving characters caught up in Tarantino-level violence and heart-breaking altruism. \</div><div><br>Accompanied by a soundtrack of rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues, this work of dogged investigative journalism and history is told by Higdon in action-packed, colorful and riveting detail.</div>

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Lyons Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1493038494
• ISBN 13: 9781493038497
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 387
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