8 must-read true crime books like American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry by Scott Higham

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American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry

By: Scott Higham

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The definitive investigation and exposé of how some of the nation's largest corporations created an…

If you liked the true crime plot in American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry by Scott Higham , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back

By: Sarah Ransome

3.99

Format: 272 pages, ebook

For the first time ever, a survivor tells the shocking inside story of her time trapped in Jeffrey … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ransome's Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back book and Scott Higham's American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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2. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America book and Scott Higham's American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social issues
  • audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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3. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. 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

Similar categories in Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus book and Scott Higham's American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry

  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
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5. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.16

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare

By: John Lisle

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

John Lisle reveals the untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch― The Dirty Tricks De… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence

By: Vivek Ramaswamy

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Woke Inc. makes the case that the essence of true American… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.20

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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9. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

By: Jane Marie

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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10. Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

By: Mark Leibovich

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times Bestseller "He's one of the best chroniclers of politics today." -Jake Tapp… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

By: Joan Biskupic

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup

By: Evan Hughes

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers--until… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
  • science
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13. The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party

By: Dana Milbank

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social issues
  • audiobook
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14. Eusebius: The Church History

By: Paul L. Maier

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Next to Josephus, Eusebius is the most widely-consulted reference work on the early church. Much of… read more

Similar categories in Paul L. Maier's Eusebius: The Church History book and Scott Higham's American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry

  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind

By: Robert Draper

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2022 The disturbing eyewitness account of how a new … read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

By: David Enrich

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times’s Business Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers c… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
  • audiobook
"On January 6, months of fearmongering and lies about voter fraud and a stolen election exploded into a deadly insurrection. Jones Day wasn't to blame, but it wasn't not to blame either. The firm had …"

-David Enrich, Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

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17. Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic

By: Eric Eyre

4.07

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

An investigation into the corporate and governmental greed that pumped millions of pain pills into … read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal

18. American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

By: Chris McGreal

4.15

Format: 336 pages, ebook

The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But ca… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social issues
  • science
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19. American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry

By: Scott Higham

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The definitive investigation and exposé of how some of the nation's largest corporations created an… read more

Similar categories in Scott Higham's American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry book and Scott Higham's American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry

  • audiobook
  • cultural
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • social issues
  • business
  • science
Cover of Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis (California Series in Public Anthropology) (Volume 46) by Kimberly Sue

20. Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis (California Series in Public Anthropology) (Volume 46)

By: Kimberly Sue

4.23

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Getting Wrecked provides a rich ethnographic account of women battling addiction as they cycle thro… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law

By: Neil Gorsuch

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

America has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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4.01

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