Description
Book SynopsisIn real life, there is a person like “Anonymous”, who, for the sake of this story, I’ll call Huey Carmichael. I was friends with this person for a while before I learned about his other life. The real Huey knows more than a thing or two about the weed business. He keeps rules. The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing tells the story of a hyper-observant, politically-minded, but humorously pragmatic weed dealer who has spent a working life compiling rules for how to a) make money and b) avoid prison. Each rule shapes a chapter of this fast-paced outlaw tale, all delivered in Huey’s deliciously trenchant argot. Here are a few of them: • No guns but keep shooters. • Stay behind the white guy. • Don’t snitch. • Always have a job. • Be multi-sourced. • Get your money and get out. Part edge-of-the-seat suspense story, part how-to manual in the tradition of The Anarchist Cookbook, The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing is as scintillating as it is subversive. Just reading it feels illegal.
Trade Review“Taibbi, a writer of striking intelligence and bold ideas, is as hilarious as he is scathing.”
—Publishers Weekly “A welcome, lyrical defense of ‘coaxing a beautiful thing out of the ground and bringing it to your door.'”
—The Bohemian
“Lays bare the link between organised crime, the state and policing”
—Morning Star
“An entertaining fictional pusher reveals sobering real-life truths”
—Washington Independent Review of Books
“[An] honest and humane approach to the nasty business of business under contemporary capitalism”
—People’s World
