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ZeroZeroZero: Look at Cocaine and All You See is Powder. Look Through Cocaine and You See the World by Roberto Saviano

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236235 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236235] to listen full audiobooks. Title: ZeroZeroZero: Look at Cocaine and All You See is Powder. Look Through Cocaine and You See the World Author: Roberto Saviano Narrator: Paul Michael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 2 minutes Release date: July 14, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the author of the #1 international bestseller Gomorrah comes an electrifying investigation of the international cocaine trade, as vicious as it is powerful, and its hidden role in the global economy In many countries, “000” flour is the finest on the market. It is hard to find, but it is soft, light, almost impalpable—like the purest, highest quality grade of cocaine. ZeroZeroZero is also the title of Roberto Saviano’s unforgettable, internationally bestselling exploration of the inner workings of the global cocaine trade—its rules and armies, and the true depth of its reach into the world economy and, by extension, its grasp on us all. Gomorrah, Saviano’s explosive account of the Neapolitan mob, the Camorra, was a worldwide publishing sensation. It struck such a nerve with the Camorra that Saviano has had to live under twenty-four-hour police protection for more than eight years. During this time he has come to know law enforcement agencies and officials around the world. With their cooperation, Saviano has broadened his perspective to take in the entire global “corporate” entity that is the drug trade and the complex money-laundering operations that allow it to function, often with the complicity of the world’s biggest banks. The result is a truly harrowing and groundbreaking synthesis of intimate literary narrative and geopolitical analysis of one of the most powerful dark forces in our economy. Saviano tracks the shift in the cocaine trade’s axis of power, from Colombia to Mexico, and relates how the Latin American cartels and gangs have forged alliances, first with the Italian crime syndicates, then with the Russians, Africans, and others. On the one hand, he charts a remarkable increase in sophistication as these criminal entities diversify into many other products and markets. On the other, he reveals the astonishing increase in the severity of violence as they have fought to protect and extend their power.Saviano is a writer and journalist of rare courage and a thinker of impressive intellectual depth, able to see the connections between farflung phenomena and bind them into a single epic story. Most drug-war narratives feel safely removed from our own lives; Saviano's offers no such comfort. As heart racing as it is heady, ZeroZeroZero is a fusion of disparate genres into a brilliant new form that can rightly be called Savianoesque.

Gray Work: Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy by Jamie Smith

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236102 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236102] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gray Work: Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy Author: Jamie Smith Narrator: Jeff Gurner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 30, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 10 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The first ever, first-person story of America's private, paramilitary contractors at work around the world-from a man who performed these missions himself and has decades of stories to tell. This is a fascinating tale-and potentially the first-to describe the work of American contractors, men who run highly dangerous missions deep inside foreign countries on the brink of war. It will lift the veil and detail the ultimate danger and risk of paramilitary operations (both officially government-sanctioned and not) and show us in very intimate terms exactly what private soldiers do when the government can't act or take public responsibility. GRAY WORK combines covert military intelligence with boots-on-the-ground realism, following Jamie Smith through his CIA training and work as a spy in the State Department, to his co-founding of Blackwater following 9/11, to his decision to leave that company. As the founder and director of Blackwater Security, Smith's initial vision has undeniably shaped and transformed a decade of war. He argues that this gray area-and its warriors who occupy the controversial space between public and private-has become an indispensable element of the modern battlefield.

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/234132 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/234132] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget Author: Sarah Hepola Narrator: Sarah Hepola Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 23, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 9 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this unflinchingly honest and hilarious memoir, a woman discovers that her best life is a sober one. For Sarah Hepola, drinking felt like freedom; part of her birthright as a twenty-first-century woman. But there was a price–she often blacked out, having no memory of the lost hours. On the outside, her career was flourishing, but inside, her spirit was diminishing. She could no longer avoid the truth–she needed help.  Blackout is the story of a woman stumbling into a new kind of adventure–sobriety. Sarah Hepola's tale will resonate with anyone who has had to face the reality of addiction and the struggle to put down the bottle. At first it seemed like a sacrifice–but in the end, it was all worth it to get her life back

Legend of the Road Mangler: An Audio Memoir by Phil Kaufman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236178 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236178] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Legend of the Road Mangler: An Audio Memoir Author: Phil Kaufman Narrator: Phil Kaufman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 23, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Mick Jagger has described Phil Kaufman, America’s legendary road manager, as the entertainment industry’s “executive nanny.” In Legend of the Road Mangler, Kaufman tells the stories of his adventures on the road with the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, Gram Parsons, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Joe Cocker, Etta James, Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, Marty Stuart, Nanci Griffith, and many others. In addition to road managing, he’s been an airman, an inmate, and (briefly) Charles Manson’s record producer. To fulfill a promise, he once borrowed a hearse, stole Gram Parsons’ body, and cremated it in the desert. You’ll hear the whole story as only Kaufman can tell it, along with the voices of some of the artists who know him best. Legend of the Road Mangler is a must-listen for music fans who love to know what goes on behind the scenes, on the bus, after the show, and out in the desert.

How to Catch a Russian Spy: The True Story of an American Civilian Turned Self-taught Double Agent by Naveed Jamali, Ellis Henican

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236148 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236148] to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Catch a Russian Spy: The True Story of an American Civilian Turned Self-taught Double Agent Author: Naveed Jamali, Ellis Henican Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: June 23, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: With an epilogue on recent Russian spying, a “page-turner of a memoir” (Publishers Weekly) about an American civilian with a dream, who worked as a double agent with the FBI in the early 2000s to bring down a Russian intelligence agent in New York City. For three nerve-wracking years, from 2005 to 2008, Naveed Jamali spied on America for the Russians, trading thumb drives of sensitive technical data for envelopes of cash, selling out his beloved country across noisy restaurant tables and in quiet parking lots. Or so the Russians believed. In fact, Jamali was a covert double agent working with the FBI. The Cold War wasn’t really over. It had just gone high-tech. “A classic case of American counterespionage from the inside…a never-ending game of cat and mouse” (The Wall Street Journal), How to Catch a Russian Spy is the story of how one young man’s post-college-adventure became a real-life intelligence coup. Incredibly, Jamali had no previous counterespionage experience. Everything he knew about undercover work he’d picked up from TV cop shows and movies, yet he convinced the FBI and the Russians they could trust him. With charm, cunning, and bold naiveté, he matched wits with a veteran Russian military-intelligence officer, out-maneuvering him and his superiors. Along the way, Jamali and his FBI handlers exposed espionage activities at the Russian Mission to the United Nations. Jamali now reveals the full riveting story behind his double-agent adventure—from coded signals on Craigslist to clandestine meetings at Hooter’s to veiled explanations to his worried family. He also brings the story up to date with an epilogue showing how the very same playbook the Russians used on him was used with spectacularly more success around the 2016 election. Cinematic, news-breaking, and “an entertaining and breezy read” (The Washington Post), How to Catch a Russian Spy is an armchair spy fantasy brought to life.