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Crack House

The Incredible True Story of the Man Who Took On London's Crack Gangs and Won

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Crack House

By: Harry Keeble, Kris Hollington
Narrated by: Damian Lynch
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About this listen

Crack House takes the listener into the dark heart of our cities' most violent and terrifying places, showing how the war on drugs can only be won by constant and forceful vigilance. The bastard offspring of cocaine, crack first entered the UK in the early 1990s. By the end of the decade, Britain's inner cities were in the midst of a crack epidemic, with users being responsible for a massive proportion of crime. Communities, especially in London, were crying out for help, but there were only two specialist units in the whole of the capital.

One of them, Haringey Drugs Squad, embarked on a war on crack, aiming to shut down all 100 crack houses in their borough in one year. Amazingly, they did it. Even more amazingly, in the subsequent 12 months all black-on-black killings in Haringey ceased, and burglaries and muggings fell massively.

In Crack House, Harry Keeble describes in heart-stopping fashion the raids and arrests, as well as the beatings, stabbings, and shootings he witnessed as leader of the Haringey Drugs Squad and their war on drugs.

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fantastic book,really gave a great insight into what the team went through to combat the crack epidemic, definitely recommend this to anyone who enjoys real life fact based reads ....it's a 5+ from me 🙌🏾👍🏽

fantastic book

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Incredibly realistic ,I'm having difficulty coming to terms with it.
It's a real eye opener If you have children old enough to read they should be reading this

wow

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What made the experience of listening to Crack House the most enjoyable?

Listened to this in stages over a few weeks of my drive home. Made the journey fly by. Incredible, unbelievable - yet real life tales of a sub culture that is so scary that it seems unreal yet it is probably happening uncomfortably close to where you live. These dedicated brave men and women deserve medals!

Powerful and gritty view of real life

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Just finishing listening to this over 2 nights whilst at work in my lorry. A fascinating insight too a dark and brutal world showing what can be done with determination on top small a budget. An educating listen and a tough listen at times in so many ways, I was horrified at a lot in the book but really struggled with the child brutality part, but the world should be made aware of what went on, and can still go on to this day.
Top marks to the police in all their forms in dealing with the crack epidemic at its height.
Looking forward to the next book by this author that I just downloaded.

Epic

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a very well written book, goes deep into the issues of hard drugs in major cities such as London. Some truly horrific incidents described in gruesome detail give the reader a first hand appreciation at the scale of the problem.

nicely narrated

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