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Author: Mike Power
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Imprint: Thomas Dunne Books
Dimensions:
Width: 14.20cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 21.10cm
Weight: 0.431kg
ISBN: 9781250054715
ISBN 10: 1250054710
Pages: 316
Publication Date: 14 October 2014
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
An authoritative and compellingly lucid account on one of the most important topics drug prohibition has created. Very few books have ever managed to convince me that the author truly understands this topic as well as Mike does. Remember to buy two and give one to your local politician. --Dread Pirate Roberts, Silk Road, December 2013 Power is a sure guide through this cyberworld, with its torrent of new tablets, capsules and powders...Power is not impervious to the moral ambivalences of this frenetic world...His conclusion that in the digital age, traditional prohibition enforcement is bound to fail seems as undeniable a fact as the M25. -- Daily Telegraph (UK) [Power] lifts the lid on forums where amateur chemists and dedicated drug experiments compare notes. Anyone who has remained unaware of the existence of the Dark Web will be genuinely shocked at what it's now possible to buy on the streets. -- Herald (UK) Fascinating and vividly written...His is an informed and thoroughly hip intervention into a public debate that is too often evidence-hostile and tabloid-panderingly disingenuous. --The Guardian (UK) A stimulating read...a must-read for anyone interested in pharmaceuticals, popular culture or the ever-changing face of the web. -- Skinny (UK) An informed, entertaining and profoundly sobering explanation of the state of play in the modern day global narcotics trade....Power delves into the minutiae and oddities of the trade's development in illuminating detail. Some of it is technical, but it's rarely dry and often very funny.... Profoundly compelling. -- Metro (UK)
An authoritative and compellingly lucid account on one of the most important topics drug prohibition has created. Very few books have ever managed to convince me that the author truly understands this topic as well as Mike does. Remember to buy two and give one to your local politician. --Dread Pirate Roberts, Silk Road, December 2013
Author Information
Mike Power is a freelance investigative journalist living in London. He has worked for The Guardian, the Mail on Sunday, the BBC, and Reuters. In 2014 he received the Best Investigative Journalism Award, awarded by the Association of British Science Writers, for his piece The drug revolution that no one can stop, which appeared in the online journal Matter. Drugs Unlimited is his first book.
