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County Lines

By: Jason Farrell
Narrated by: Paul Thornley
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County Lines - the new breed of exploitation plaguing the streets of a town near you.

If you've heard any news report on the upsurge in knife crime recently, you'll have heard the words 'county lines'. From the street slang that was once known as 'going country' - it sees powerful drugs gangs supplying outside of the capital through an underworld 'emerging markets enterprise', using children as young as 12 and vulnerable men and women to do their dirty work.

Teens whose bereaved relatives assume they led ordinary lives, who tell us they were 'good kids', suddenly end up stabbed to death with no seeming motive. At night, on a usually quiet suburban street, a massive knife fight erupts and two kids end up on life support. Their parents tell the news they weren't in a gang ... What is really going on?

Jason Farrell, Home Editor at Sky News, is the man with the inside story. In this fearless, hard-hitting account, Farell shares in terrifying detail the story of the county lines phenomenon through the words of gang members and their victims themselves as well as the police and the country's leading experts.

Through exclusive interviews and meticulous research, Farrell paints a vivid picture of how this murky world operates he reveals the devastating effects County Lines is having upon the UK... and beyond... and, most terrifying of all, why this new, sinister crime wave means nobody is safe. Organized Crime True Crime Crime Exciting Thought-Provoking Emotionally Gripping Inspiring United Kingdom
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Great, if terrifying, expose of life for some of our children and their families.

I liked the patchwork of the separate chapters which wove together as I listened to the narrator. It made me sad yet feeling more informed and more aware of the risks to our children.

What price austerity?

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Thank you Jason Farrell for this fantastic insight into County Lines. What a wonderful listen read so powerfully by Paul Thornley.
I now have a proper understanding of what ‘County lines’ are and the impact they are having on Class A drug distribution in the UK.
An absolutely fascinating book. I would thoroughly recommend it.

Investigative Journalism at it’s best

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Wow, living in a quiet town, up north. was shocked to hear what kids experience elsewhere.
I was hooked from start to finish.
A must listen

Shockingly honest,

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I found the information provided in this book very interesting. The author gives independent information on a topic I had only heard about in vague terms until now. So I stuck with this book, because I wanted to learn more. However, the narrator is the worst I have heard so far. After every sentence, he pauses as if this is the end of the chapter. The intonation of each sentence is also not appropriate for the meaning of the words. Really hard to endure.

Very informative, awful narrator

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Good insight to the problems facing young people today. Very well researched and set out. A book all politicians should read and act on.

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