- United States, Crack (Drug), Cocaine abuse, United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Gary Webb draws from thousands of pages of once-secret files from the CIA, DEA, and FBI, the L.A. Sheriff's Department, and recently declassified papers from the Iran-Contra investigation.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and plot-driven.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Gary Webb
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 561
- Publisher
- Turnaround, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, Seven Stories Press
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781609806217
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“The night that I read the "Dark Alliance" series, I was so alarmed, that I literally sat straight up in bed, poring over every word.”
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