19 Best nonfiction books like I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad by Baynard Woods

Cover of I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad by Baynard Woods

I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

By: Baynard Woods

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The explosive true story of America's most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), th…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad by Baynard Woods , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Filthy Rich: The true story behind the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal by John Connolly, James  Patterson, Tim Malloy

1. Filthy Rich: The true story behind the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal

By: John Connolly , James Patterson , Tim Malloy

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer. … read more

Similar categories in John Connolly's Filthy Rich: The true story behind the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal book and Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon

2. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

By: David Simon

3.65

Format: 135 pages,

From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the b… read more

Similar categories in David Simon's Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets book and Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon, Edward Burns

3. The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood

By: David Simon , Edward Burns

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously av… read more

Similar categories in David Simon's The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood book and Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The Torah: The Five Books of Moses by Anonymous, Harry M. Orlinsky

4. The Torah: The Five Books of Moses

By: Anonymous , Harry M. Orlinsky

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Read our customer guide The Torah is the essence of Jewish tradition; it inspires each successive g… read more

Similar categories in Anonymous's The Torah: The Five Books of Moses book and Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

  • nonfiction
  • history

5. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

By: Jeremy Scahill

3.80

Format: None pages,

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6. Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor

By: Clinton Romesha

3.97

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the thirteen hour firefight at the Battle of Keating b… read more

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Cover of Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang by Ken Croke

7. Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang

By: Ken Croke

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sons of Anarchy meets The Departed in this fast-paced, high-wire act memoir from former ATF agent K… read more

Similar categories in Ken Croke's Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang book and Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green

8. Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

By: Elon Green

3.84

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay communit… read more

Similar categories in Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York book and Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb

9. 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

By: Bruce Goldfarb

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Gilded Age Chicago heiress who revolutionized forensic death investigation. As the… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics book and Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. Raising Lazarus

By: Beth Macy

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on th… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Killer's Shadow:  The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer by John E. Douglas

11. The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

By: John E. Douglas

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of Mindhunter and The Kill… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The journey to reckon with our nation's searing history of racial hatred, intolerance, and discrimination is ongoing, and there are no neutrals in that struggle. The shadow cast by Joseph Paul Frankl…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

"With today's technology, conversations that used to be limited to basements and meeting halls, the kinds of words and places that first helped radicalize Franklin, now have tens of thousands of parti…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

"Due to the remarkable advances in communications technologies, we find ourselves living at a time when it is far easier to radicalize and inspire hate than ever before. The internet and social media …"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

Cover of Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime by Joe Pompeo

12. Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime

By: Joe Pompeo

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister a… read more

Similar categories in Joe Pompeo's Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime book and Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City by Justin Fenton

13. We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City

By: Justin Fenton

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray,… read more

Similar categories in Justin Fenton's We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City book and Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

  • race
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • police
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad by Baynard Woods

14. I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

By: Baynard Woods

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The explosive true story of America's most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), th… read more

Similar categories in Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad book and Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

  • race
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • police
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church by Rachel L. Swarns

15. The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church

By: Rachel L. Swarns

4.13

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New W… read more

Similar categories in Rachel L. Swarns's The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church book and Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic by Ben Westhoff

16. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

By: Ben Westhoff

4.02

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illici… read more

Similar categories in Ben Westhoff's Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic book and Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard

17. American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics

By: Kevin Hazzard

4.57

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the fi… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Hazzard's American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics book and Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader by Mark Bowden

18. Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader

By: Mark Bowden

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Balti… read more

Similar categories in Mark Bowden's Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader book and Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland by Ali Winston

19. The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland

By: Ali Winston

4.20

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From the Polk Award–winning investigative duo comes “a meticulously researched and enraging account… read more

Similar categories in Ali Winston's The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland book and Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang by Steven  Dudley

20. MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

By: Steven Dudley

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The MS-13 was born from war. In the 1980s, El Salvador was enmeshed in a bloody civil conflict. To … read more

Similar categories in Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang book and Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America by Lawrence T. Brown

21. The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America

By: Lawrence T. Brown

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by F… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence T. Brown's The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America book and Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction

15 Top audiobook books like I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad by Baynard Woods

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Filthy Rich: The true story behind the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal

John Connolly , James Patterson , Tim Malloy

3.38

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Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang

Ken Croke

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

Elon Green

3.84

Transform Your Habits

18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

Bruce Goldfarb

3.69

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

Rich Cohen

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

4.43

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Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

Max Marshall

3.50

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