Among the bros : a fraternity crime story /
Marshall, Max (Journalist),
Among the bros : a fraternity crime story / Max Marshall. - First edition. - x, 290 pages ; 22 cm
Wolves of King Street -- Mountain weekend -- Recruitment -- Pledgeship -- Old south weekend -- Dousing the tree -- QB sneak -- Blackout punch -- Pure water -- Uncle's coke -- Patrick -- Count crazy -- I'm your pledge -- Storage locker -- Some consequences -- Party never ends.
"From a brilliant young investigative journalist, an unprecedented look at elite American fraternity life, tracing a multi-million-dollar drug ring that ended in a chain of betrayals and a murder. When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a murder, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep South. He also opened up an elite world hidden to outsiders. Behind the pop culture cliches of "Greek life" lies one of the major breeding grounds of American power: 80 percent of Fortune 500 executives, 85 percent of Supreme Court justices, and all but four presidents since 1825 have been fraternity members. With unprecedented immersion, this book takes readers inside that bubble. Under the live oaks and Spanish moss of Travel + Leisure's "Most Beautiful Campus in America," Marshall traces several "C of C" boys' journeys from fraternity pledges to interstate drug traffickers. The result is a true-life story of hubris, status, money, drugs, and murder-one that lifts a curtain on an ecstatic and disturbing way of life. With expert pacing and a cool eye, he follows a never-ending party that continues after funerals and mass arrests. An addictive and haunting portrait of tomorrow's American establishment, Among the Bros is nonfiction storytelling at its finest"--
9780063099531 0063099535
2023013190
College of Charleston.
College students--Drug use--South Carolina--Charleston.
Drug abuse and crime--South Carolina--Charleston.
Greek letter societies--South Carolina--Charleston.
Elite (Social sciences)--South Carolina--Charleston.
True crime stories.
Among the bros : a fraternity crime story / Max Marshall. - First edition. - x, 290 pages ; 22 cm
Wolves of King Street -- Mountain weekend -- Recruitment -- Pledgeship -- Old south weekend -- Dousing the tree -- QB sneak -- Blackout punch -- Pure water -- Uncle's coke -- Patrick -- Count crazy -- I'm your pledge -- Storage locker -- Some consequences -- Party never ends.
"From a brilliant young investigative journalist, an unprecedented look at elite American fraternity life, tracing a multi-million-dollar drug ring that ended in a chain of betrayals and a murder. When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a murder, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep South. He also opened up an elite world hidden to outsiders. Behind the pop culture cliches of "Greek life" lies one of the major breeding grounds of American power: 80 percent of Fortune 500 executives, 85 percent of Supreme Court justices, and all but four presidents since 1825 have been fraternity members. With unprecedented immersion, this book takes readers inside that bubble. Under the live oaks and Spanish moss of Travel + Leisure's "Most Beautiful Campus in America," Marshall traces several "C of C" boys' journeys from fraternity pledges to interstate drug traffickers. The result is a true-life story of hubris, status, money, drugs, and murder-one that lifts a curtain on an ecstatic and disturbing way of life. With expert pacing and a cool eye, he follows a never-ending party that continues after funerals and mass arrests. An addictive and haunting portrait of tomorrow's American establishment, Among the Bros is nonfiction storytelling at its finest"--
9780063099531 0063099535
2023013190
College of Charleston.
College students--Drug use--South Carolina--Charleston.
Drug abuse and crime--South Carolina--Charleston.
Greek letter societies--South Carolina--Charleston.
Elite (Social sciences)--South Carolina--Charleston.
True crime stories.