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The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing

An Almost True Account

Matt Taibbi author Reggie Harris author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:OR Books

Published:17th Nov '22

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The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing tells the story of a hyper-observant, politically-minded, but humorously pragmatic weed dealer who has spent a working life compiling rules for how to a) make money and b) avoid prison.

Each rule shapes a chapter of this fast-paced outlaw tale, all delivered in his deliciously trenchant argot. Here are a few of them:

  • No guns but keep shooters.
  • Stay behind the white guy.
  • Don’t snitch.
  • Always have a job.
  • Be multi-sourced.
  • Get your money and get out.

Part edge-of-the-seat suspense story, part how-to manual in the tradition of The Anarchist Cookbook, The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing is as scintillating as it is subversive. Just reading it feels illegal.

“Taibbi, a writer of striking intelligence and bold ideas, is as hilarious as he is scathing.”
Publishers Weekly 

“A welcome, lyrical defense of ‘coaxing a beautiful thing out of the ground and bringing it to your door.'”
— The Bohemian

“Lays bare the link between organised crime, the state and policing”
— Morning Star 

“An entertaining fictional pusher reveals sobering real-life truths”
— Washington Independent Review of Books

“[An] honest and humane approach to the nasty business of business under contemporary capitalism”
— People’s World

ISBN: 9781682193419

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

224 pages