10 best-selling true crime books like The Cartel: The Inside Story of Britain's Biggest Drugs Gang by Graham Johnson

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The Cartel: The Inside Story of Britain's Biggest Drugs Gang

By: Graham Johnson

4.09

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A global workforce. Billions in sales. But, unlike Tesco or BP, few have heard of it. The Cartel is…

If you liked the true crime plot in The Cartel: The Inside Story of Britain's Biggest Drugs Gang by Graham Johnson , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Ronnie: The Autobiography of Ronnie O'Sullivan by Ronnie O'Sullivan, Simon Hattenstone

1. Ronnie: The Autobiography of Ronnie O'Sullivan

By: Ronnie O'Sullivan , Simon Hattenstone

3.93

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Ronnie is snooker's most written and talked about player, and its greatest showman. His supreme tal… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Beatles Anthology by The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison

2. The Beatles Anthology

By: The Beatles , John Lennon , Paul McCartney , Ringo Starr , George Harrison

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This extraordinary project has been made possible because Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I'm sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps"

-The Beatles, The Beatles Anthology

Cover of Cocky: The Rise & Fall of Curtis Warren, Britain's Biggest Drug Baron by Peter Walsh, Tony Barnes, None, Richard Elias, Peter      Walsh

3. Cocky: The Rise & Fall of Curtis Warren, Britain's Biggest Drug Baron

By: Peter Walsh , Tony Barnes , None , Richard Elias , Peter Walsh

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Curtis Warren is an underworld legend, the Liverpool scally who took the methods of the street corn… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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4. Mr Smiley: My Last Pill and Testament

By: Howard Marks

4.00

Format: 4 pages,

read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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5. Ghosts of the Past

By: Harry McCallion

4.36

Format: 184 pages,

The bodies of two men are found brutally murdered in London's Hyde Park, one with a broken neck, th… read more

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6. Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail

By: Rusty Young , Thomas McFadden

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted Engli… read more

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Cover of American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice

7. American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

By: Chris Kyle , Scott McEwen , Jim DeFelice

4.03

Format: 502 pages, Paperback

From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States… read more

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  • nonfiction
"But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going."

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

"In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers."

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

"The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pa…"

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

8. Operation Certain Death

By: Damien Lewis

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This book chronicles the story of the single most daring Special Forces operation since World War T… read more

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9. Hotel Kerobokan

By: Kathryn Bonella

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, the ironic nickname for Kerobokan Jail, Bali's most notorious prison, a… read more

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Cover of American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton

10. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

By: Nick Bilton

4.40

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedro… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"It was time to bring in the people with the calculators."

-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

"This is one of those rare government buildings in which someone who uses a calculator for a living can wield more power than a person who carries a gun."

-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

11. Billy

By: Pamela Stephenson

4.07

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Whatever your opinion of Billy Connolly, his life has been an epic tale of controversy and hilarity… read more

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Cover of Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill

12. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt

13. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

By: Ian Dunt

4.45

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more

Similar categories in Ian Dunt's How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't book and Graham Johnson's The Cartel: The Inside Story of Britain's Biggest Drugs Gang

  • nonfiction
Cover of There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

14. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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15. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5) by Irvine Welsh

16. Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)

By: Irvine Welsh

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A spectacular return of the wild, dissolute gang from Trainspotting, from the author the New York T… read more

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  • crime
"Ah fuckin hate the way some American cunts call lassies cunts. Fuckin offensive, that shite."

-Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)

"I'm glad our slivers of existence intersected in a Venn diagram between the crushing slabs of oblivion on either side of them"

-Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)

"I pay more tax registered in Holland than I would in the USA, but better gieing to the Dutch to build dams than the Yanks to build bombs."

-Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)

Cover of The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails by Vanessa Frake

17. The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

By: Vanessa Frake

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on This Morning Back in the day, I was Governor of Se… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story by Des Powell

18. SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story

By: Des Powell

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

'An incredible story, and so well told' Bear Grylls'Honesty, integrity and real experience that put… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows by Jason Fox

19. Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows

By: Jason Fox

4.14

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This is a true story. The events depicted took place during the last decade in an unnamed warzone. … read more

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  • nonfiction
"All across the mission, dozens of horror stories were being written. I just had to deal with mine."

-Jason Fox, Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows

"The fact that I was considered part of that elite group, and the idea that other people could rely on me, too, felt life-affirming... I told myself, Mate, you’re good at a job where you have to work …"

-Jason Fox, Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows

Cover of Inside Broadmoor: Up Close and Personal with Britain's Most Dangerous Criminals by Jonathan Levi

20. Inside Broadmoor: Up Close and Personal with Britain's Most Dangerous Criminals

By: Jonathan Levi

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has co… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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21. The Painter

By: Dean Cavanagh

3.97

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

The Painter is the no holds barred, unflinching true story of a man from a London council estate wh… read more

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Cover of I Am a Drug Lord: The Last Confession of a Real-Life Underworld Kingpin by Anonymous

22. I Am a Drug Lord: The Last Confession of a Real-Life Underworld Kingpin

By: Anonymous

3.76

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

A unique and unbelievable first-hand account of how one man fought his way to the top of the crimin… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Why Did You Stay?: A Memoir About Self-Worth by Rebecca Humphries

23. Why Did You Stay?: A Memoir About Self-Worth

By: Rebecca Humphries

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Actor, writer and hopeless romantic Rebecca Humphries had often been called crazy by her boyfriend.… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Operation Relentless: The Hunt for the Richest, Deadliest Criminal in History by Damien Lewis

24. Operation Relentless: The Hunt for the Richest, Deadliest Criminal in History

By: Damien Lewis

4.01

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

By 2007 Viktor Bout had become the world's foremost arms dealer. Known as the 'Merchant of Death' h… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Drug Gang Takedown (Drug Gang, #3) by Neil Walker

25. Drug Gang Takedown (Drug Gang, #3)

By: Neil Walker

4.24

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

“I definitely want to continue reading this series because it’s so different.” Briar’s Reviews “Th… read more

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"I want to have money, so I don’t have to spend my life chasing money."

-Neil Walker, Drug Gang Takedown (Drug Gang, #3)

"We can bring in all the guns and drugs we need and bring out all the bodies of people we don’t."

-Neil Walker, Drug Gang Takedown (Drug Gang, #3)

"To them, kindness was seen as weakness, mercy was perceived as cowardice and negotiation was a code word for a bullet in the head."

-Neil Walker, Drug Gang Takedown (Drug Gang, #3)

"Continued remarks about John and Lisa being like Clarence and Alabama in True Romance or Mickey and Mallory in Natural Born Killers had lifted the atmosphere somewhat."

-Neil Walker, Drug Gang Takedown (Drug Gang, #3)

Cover of The Curse of Brink's-Mat: The story of the real-life robbery that inspired BBC drama ‘The Gold' by Wensley Clarkson

26. The Curse of Brink's-Mat: The story of the real-life robbery that inspired BBC drama ‘The Gold'

By: Wensley Clarkson

4.08

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

On 26 November 1983 six armed robbers escaped with £28 million worth of gold bullion from a Brink's… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Operators: On The Street with Britain's Most Secret Service by James Rennie

27. The Operators: On The Street with Britain's Most Secret Service

By: James Rennie

4.10

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

A rare look inside the British Army’s elite special forces unit and its counter-terrorism surveilla… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Cartel: The Inside Story of Britain's Biggest Drugs Gang by Graham Johnson

28. The Cartel: The Inside Story of Britain's Biggest Drugs Gang

By: Graham Johnson

4.09

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A global workforce. Billions in sales. But, unlike Tesco or BP, few have heard of it. The Cartel is… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Wild Cats by Danny Woollard

29. Wild Cats

By: Danny Woollard

3.52

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

"Wildcats" is the story of those untameable and unstoppable men, the hardened East End villains who… read more

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Cover of Fat Freddie: A gangster’s life – the bloody career of Freddie Thompson by Stephen Breen

30. Fat Freddie: A gangster’s life – the bloody career of Freddie Thompson

By: Stephen Breen

4.08

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

The No 1 Bestseller'A fascinating read' Seán O'Rourke, RTÉ Radio One'Fat' Freddie Thompson first ap… read more

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Cover of The Crossing: The shocking truth about gang wars in Brexit Britain by Wensley Clarkson

31. The Crossing: The shocking truth about gang wars in Brexit Britain

By: Wensley Clarkson

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

'We will run everything in this country, robbery, drugs, trafficking, in five years' time. I promis… read more

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Ronnie: The Autobiography of Ronnie O'Sullivan

Ronnie O'Sullivan , Simon Hattenstone

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Beatles Anthology

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4.38

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Cocky: The Rise & Fall of Curtis Warren, Britain's Biggest Drug Baron

Peter Walsh , Tony Barnes , None , Richard Elias , Peter Walsh

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Mr Smiley: My Last Pill and Testament

Howard Marks

4.00

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Miguel Delibes

4.83

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Straight White Male

John Niven

3.66

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Frankie Boyle

3.54

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John Niven

4.07

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