Pill City: How Two Honor Roll Students Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire

An account of the most profitable illicit opiate dealing schemes in American history, and the tech-savvy teenagers who helped pull it off.

In 2015, Baltimore plunged into the worst American riots in recent history. In the chaos, two high school honor-roll students, "Brick" and "Wax," used their smarts, computer skills, ambition and gang connections to change the world of illegal drugs forever. With their gang associates, they looted pharmacies and robbed dealers, stealing over one million do...