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Wade, Vince.
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Wershe, Richard, 1969-
Informers -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Drug traffic -- United States.
Prisoners -- Biography.
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Wade, Vince.
Wershe, Richard, 1969-
Informers -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Drug traffic -- United States.
Prisoners -- Biography.
MARC Display
Prisoner
of
war
: the
story
of
White
Boy
Rick
and the
war
on
drugs
/ Vince Wade.
by
Wade, Vince.
Wade Multimedia, LLC, 2018.
Call #:
364.13365 W121p
Subjects
Wershe, Richard, 1969-
Informers -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Drug traffic -- United States.
Prisoners -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780692995709 (pbk.)
Description:
viii, 392 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
The astonishing but true
story
of
White
Boy
Rick
Wershe is an example of why the
War
on
Drugs
has been a trillion-dollar policy failure for nearly half a century.
Rick
Wershe, Jr. was a street-savvy Detroit
white
kid in a dysfunctional family. His mother fled an abusive marriage, leaving her children behind.
Rick
raised himself. He didn't do
drugs
, but he knew important people in the narcotics underworld. The FBI had him infiltrate a powerful black drug gang with City Hall connections.
Rick
did a good job. Too good. He became a key witness in a homicide. It involved top-level police corruption which blocked the investigation of the drug gang's killing of a little
boy
.
White
Boy
Rick
's FBI work caused shock waves that went to the very top of the Justice Department. The FBI abandoned him and local narcs snared him in a drug case that carried a life prison sentence.
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