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A Fraternity Crime Story-The True Story of a Journalist's Investigation into a Fraternity Drug Ring
by Max Marshall
A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, leading to an unprecedented look at elite American fraternity life.
When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a homicide, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep South. He also opened up an elite world hidden to outsiders. Behind the pop culture cliches of "Greek life" lies one of the major breeding grounds of American power: 80 percent of Fortune 500 executives, 85 percent of Supreme Court justices, and all but four presidents since 1825 have been fraternity members. With unprecedented immersion, this book takes readers inside that bubble.
Under the live oaks and Spanish moss of Travel + Leisure's "Most Beautiful Campus in America," Marshall traces several "C of C" boys' journeys from fraternity pledges to interstate drug traffickers. The result is a true-life story of hubris, status, money, drugs, and murder—one that lifts a curtain on an ecstatic and disturbing way of life. With expert pacing and a cool eye, he follows a never-ending party that continues after funerals and mass arrests.
An addictive and haunting portrait of tomorrow's American establishment, Among the Bros is nonfiction storytelling at its finest.
"Through chilling, candid conversations with his sources, Marshall convincingly illustrates how these young men allowed greed to wreck their lives. The result is a fast-paced and frightening campus crime saga." —Publishers Weekly
"[Marshall] treats his drug-dealing subjects and their victims as fully fleshed-out people. A must-have addition to any library's true-crime section." —Booklist
"Marshall's harrowing investigation into fraternity life and interstate drug trafficking stands as one of the year's most eye-opening reads. What looks at first to be a story of campus crime turns into an epic of national corruption, with fraternity life at the core." —Crime Reads
"Combining excellent journalism and deftly paced storytelling, this chilling tale lifts a veil on a decadent and troubling lifestyle." —Shelf Awareness
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Max Marshall is a writer and journalist. Raised in Dallas, Texas, he lives in Austin. He graduated from Columbia University in 2016 and served as a Princeton in Asia Media Fellow in Hanoi, Vietnam. His work has appeared in GQ, Texas Monthly, Sports Illustrated, and the New York Times.
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