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Doctor Dealer
- The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire
- Narrated by: Christopher Kipiniak
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
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Summary
Doctor Dealer is the story of Larry Lavin, a bright, charismatic young man who rose from his working-class upbringing to win a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, earn Ivy League college and dental degrees, and buy his family a house in one of Philadelphia's most exclusive suburbs. But behind the facade of his success was a dark secret - at every step of the way he was building the foundation for a cocaine empire that would grow to generate over $60 million in annual sales. Award-winning journalist Mark Bowden tells the saga of Lavin's rise and fall with the gripping, novelistic narrative style that won him international acclaim as the author of the New York Times best-seller Black Hawk Down.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Noemie
- 05-02-18
Ok
The narrator would have been a lot more bearable without the random voices in the book, it was easy enough to follow as it was written with said so & so or so & so said each time without the fake accents and falsetto's!!
Book was generally interesting but there was a bit to much time spent on unnecessary repetition for it to drop off a cliff a bit a the end and the writers view of the criminal at the end was telling after so much time interviewing the man.
Worth a read if you have time to spare.
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- dawn
- 26-04-18
Interesting but not captivating
In the end I got into this book, but it wasn’t ever particularly exciting or scandalous. I’d expected more of a Wolf of Wall Street style epic, but it was more of a slow burn.
That said, it had lots of lives involved and it was interesting to find out what happened to them all.
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- gavin
- 21-02-18
expected more from the book
struggled to finish as lost interested. . expected more .. wasn't a bad read just seemed to be stretching boring stuff out instead of getting to the point .
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- Neilo
- 24-06-16
Make your journey a bit longer
What made the experience of listening to Doctor Dealer the most enjoyable?
Fascinating, well told story. Made me ignore the sat nav and go the long way on every journey.
What does Christopher Kipiniak bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
I liked the way this was narrated. I was able to clearly identify each character by the way they spoke. Too often you come across narrators trying to do this but doing a terrible job.
Any additional comments?
If you like this kind of book, this is a must read/listen. Would make a great film.
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