BMF, Mara Shalhoup
BMF, Mara Shalhoup
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BMF
The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family

Author: Mara Shalhoup

Narrator: L. Steven Taylor

Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2019


Synopsis

In the early 1990s, Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and his brother, Terry "Southwest T," rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history: the Black Mafia Family. They socialized with music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, did business with New York's king of bling Jacob "The Jeweler" Arabo, and built allegiances with rap superstars Young Jeezy and Fabolous. Yet even as BMF was attracting celebrity attention, its crew members struck fear in a city.When the brothers began clashing in 2003, the flashy and beloved Big Meech risked it all on a shot at legitimacy in the music industry. At the same time, utilizing a high-stakes wiretap operation, the feds inched toward their goal of destroying the Flenory's empire and ending the reign of a crew suspected in the sale of thousands of kilos of cocaine; and a half-dozen unsolved murders.

About Mara Shalhoup

Mara Shalhoup is an award-winning journalist who spent two years researching before she unveiled the organization and its major players through a series of articles. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on February 04, 2013

Interesting story about my childhood friends Meech and Terry Flenory of Southwest Detroit. I like the content of the book as well as the fact that I could identify with most of the Atlanta and Detroit places cited in the book. I also knew many of the characters. The biggest challenge of the book was......more

Goodreads review by Madlyn on August 04, 2016

This book was an incredible story how the family was so well organized for many years. I never heard about the Organization until I read the book. This is a perfect example how crime only lasts for a short time-before it all comes to an end.......more

Goodreads review by Dolapo on July 24, 2010

the wikipedia article on BMF ([URL not allowed]) has - better writing - fewer typos & editing mistakes - more pictures - fewer words......more

Goodreads review by Readosaurus on May 24, 2017

This book was well researched and had a lot of interesting information about Big Meech, his associates and the BMF. A lot of this information appears to come from police records and other public sources, perhaps because interviews were hard to arrange or didn’t bear much fruit. I suspect this was th......more

Goodreads review by Autumn on April 10, 2023

I found this book via the Las Vegas Libby app. I love anything to do with Mafia just because it fascinates me. The lifestyle, how they became so big, the hardships they overcame, and how they got caught. It always seems to be over silly mistakes. I had never heard of BMF, so I researched it in the m......more