Crack House: The Incredible True Story of the Man Who Took On London's Crack Gangs and Won (Unabridged) Crack House: The Incredible True Story of the Man Who Took On London's Crack Gangs and Won (Unabridged)

Crack House: The Incredible True Story of the Man Who Took On London's Crack Gangs and Won (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

Crack House takes the listener into the dark heart of our cities' most violent and terrifying places, showing how the war on drugs can only be won by constant and forceful vigilance. The bastard offspring of cocaine, crack first entered the UK in the early 1990s. By the end of the decade, Britain's inner cities were in the midst of a crack epidemic, with users being responsible for a massive proportion of crime. Communities, especially in London, were crying out for help, but there were only two specialist units in the whole of the capital.

One of them, Haringey Drugs Squad, embarked on a war on crack, aiming to shut down all 100 crack houses in their borough in one year. Amazingly, they did it. Even more amazingly, in the subsequent 12 months all black-on-black killings in Haringey ceased, and burglaries and muggings fell massively.

In Crack House, Harry Keeble describes in heart-stopping fashion the raids and arrests, as well as the beatings, stabbings, and shootings he witnessed as leader of the Haringey Drugs Squad and their war on drugs.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
NARRATOR
DT
David Thorpe
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
07:36
hr min
RELEASED
2011
7 July
PUBLISHER
Audible Studios
PRESENTED BY
Audible.co.uk
SIZE
340
MB

Customer Reviews

mispent youth ,

crack house

A very deep dark place exposed by Keeble .A great audio book that explains how low crack addicts will go and how ruthless the druglords are in there
quest for money and a way of understanding how shi**y crack life is without hitting the pipe!

Funkyfredfrog ,

Great but

My copy goes silent after 4.53.01. I'm missing two hours! It's so interesting tho!

Cinimod1899 ,

Brilliant

Great insight into what this evil drug does to people ..

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