BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel And Lost It All

7 best books like BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel And Lost It All (Bruce Porter): Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door, Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland, The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellin Cartel, Professional Idiot: A Memoir, Call Me Crazy: A Memoir, Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti, Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire

Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door

Author	Roy Wenzl
ISBN	0061246506

For thirty-one years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. A bloodthirsty serial killer, self-named "BTK"—for "bind them, torture them, kill them"—he slaughtered men, women, and children alike, eluding the police for decades while bragging of his grisly exploits to the...

Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland

Author	James St. James
ISBN	0743259823

Murder Was Never So Much Fun! When Disco Bloodbath was first published, it created a storm of controversy for its startlingly vivid, strikingly fresh, and outrageously funny depiction of the hedonistic world of the New York City club kids, for whom nothing was too outré -- including murder. Nominated...

The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellin Cartel

Author	Roberto Escobar Gaviria
ISBN	0446178926

"I have many scars. Some of them are physical, but many more are scars on my soul. A bomb sent to kill me while I was in a maximum security prison has made me blind, yet now I see the world more clearly than I have ever seen it before. I have lived an incredible adventure. I watched as my brother, Pablo Escobar,...

Professional Idiot: A Memoir

Author	Stephen "Steve-O" Glover
ISBN	1401324339

"It's mind-blowing to me how utterly far gone Steve-O was, and how he looks back on it in this book with such intelligence, humor, and searing honesty. What a truly unbelievable life."
--Johnny Knoxville

From his early days videotaping crazy skateboard stunts to starring in the Jackass...

Call Me Crazy: A Memoir

Author	Anne Heche
ISBN	0743424417

THE NATIONAL AND "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLERAs an actress, she lives in the world of illusion made to seem real. As a survivor of abuse, she's learned how to live in her own skin -- and face the reality of a broken past on her own terms.

Filled with unsparing candor and honesty, "Call Me Crazy" captures...

Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti

Author	Gene Mustain
ISBN	0028644166

John Gotti is terminally ill; when he passes on to that great Mafia in the sky, co-author Capeci will be in great demand for interviews and will the plug the book. As he battles terminal cancer in a federal prison in Illinois, John Gotti, still the acting head of the Gambino Mafia family, is constantly in...

Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire

Author	Mark Bowden
ISBN	0802137571

I've read several of Bowden's books - Black hawk Down, Killing Pablo and Guests of the Ayatollah, among them - and all have been riveting, and am planning to read his latest about the capture of Bin Laden. This book, however, fell short of the standards of those three in particular. Maybe it was because...