Gangland, Jared Savage
Gangland, Jared Savage
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Gangland

Author: Jared Savage

Narrator: Stephen Lovatt

Unabridged: 16 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 12/02/2020


Synopsis

New Zealand's underworld of organised crime and deadly gangs
'The best true-crime book of the year by a long stretch.'
- Steve Braunias, Newsroom 'A series of rip-snorting yarns about gangs, drugs, fancy cars, wads of cash, violence, and guns - Aotearoa New Zealand style.'- Simon BridgesNew Zealand is now one of the most lucrative illicit drug markets in the world. Organised crime is about making money. It's a business. But over the past 20 years, the dealers have graduated from motorcycle gangs to Asian crime syndicates and now the most dangerous drug lords in the world - the Mexican cartels.In Gangland, award-winning investigative reporter Jared Savage shines a light into New Zealand's rising underworld of organised crime and violent gangs.The brutal execution of a husband-and-wife; the undercover cop who infiltrated a casino VIP lounge; the midnight fishing trip which led to the country's biggest cocaine bust; the gangster who shot his best friend in a motorcycle shop: these stories go behind the headlines and open the door to an invisible world - a world where millions of dollars are made, life is cheap, and allegiances change like the flick of a switch.

About Jared Savage

Jared Savage is an investigative reporter for the New Zealand Herald who has won more than a dozen journalism national and international journalism awards, including twice being named as the best reporter in the country. He lives in Tauranga with his wife and two young children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bookreporter.com on August 06, 2022

Having just blasted through Chuck Hogan’s GANGLAND in less than two days of voracious reading, I am happy to report that it is one of my favorite books of 2022. Granted, it will not be for some readers as it is a highly specialized fictional account of the mob operating in Chicago in the late 1970s.......more

Goodreads review by Damo on April 26, 2024

Gangland is a hardboiled gangster crime story set in Chicago in the late 1970s. This is clearly a book that won’t be for everybody, but for those readers who enjoy the uncompromising violence of the underworld where a ruthless justice is carried out without fear or favour, then Gangland is going to......more

Goodreads review by John on October 09, 2024

I picked this up at the Mysterious Bookshop the week I was up in NY for the Edgars, when my own “Devil House” was also nominated. Just got to it this week, and wow. If you’re going to do a mob crime book: this is how. Page-turner in the extreme with rich character development and an ending that’s no......more

Goodreads review by Mara on August 21, 2023

While this is not my typical kind of suspense novel, I thought it was really well done! If you are in the mood for a Godfather type mob story where our main character is trying to stay alive as he's torn between the blackmail from the FBI & the mob boss he's supposed to roll on, this will deliver. A......more