Good Cop, Bad War

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Neil Woods: Good Cop, Bad War (2016, Penguin Random House)

320 pages

English language

Published Dec. 19, 2016 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-78503-269-1
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Good Cop, Bad War

This is probably one of the scariest non-fiction books that I have read.

I saw Neil Woods on some YouTube channels and heard some of the stories there so wanted to read his book for the extra detail and background.

With a backdrop of his own dysfunctional marriage it traces his development from being a gung-ho undercover police officer in the UK infiltrating drug gangs to an advocate of the end to the war against drugs and the wholesale decriminalisation of drugs.

I know nothing about drug culture at all but his story are arguments make a compelling case and are a gripping read.

The scary part is the two parallel worlds that he portrays and how on going to a town he managed to pick out the people to contact and within a couple of introductions he was face to face with some of the …

Subjects

  • Undercover operations
  • Drug control
  • Great britain, social conditions