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Jonathan Green

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Jonathan Green is an award-winning author and investigative journalist specializing in narrative non-fiction.

Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood and Betrayal tells the story of the infamous Bronx gang through inside access to gangsters and the federal agents, police officers and prosecutors who took them down. It was an Edgar finalist by Mystery Writers of America and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick.

His first book, Murder in the High Himalaya, won the coveted Banff Mountain Book Competition in the Mountain and Wilderness Category and the American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Non Fiction Book of the Year. The book is endorsed by the Dalai Lama and actor Richard Gere. It was translated into Polish Jonathan Green is an award-winning author and investigative journalist specializing in narrative non-fiction.

Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood and Betrayal tells the story of the infamous Bronx gang through inside access to gangsters and the federal agents, police officers and prosecutors who took them down. It was an Edgar finalist by Mystery Writers of America and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick.

His first book, Murder in the High Himalaya, won the coveted Banff Mountain Book Competition in the Mountain and Wilderness Category and the American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Non Fiction Book of the Year. The book is endorsed by the Dalai Lama and actor Richard Gere. It was translated into Polish in 2016. (Trivia: The book and the story of Kelsang Namtso served as the inspiration for the song Absconders by Canadian Metal band Gorguts on their critically acclaimed album, Colored Sands.)

Green has reported from Sudan on jihadist militias, the guerilla-controlled jungles of Colombia on the cocaine trade, corruption in oil-rich Kazakhstan and the destruction of the rainforest in Borneo among many other demanding assignments around the globe. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Men's Journal, British Esquire, Fast Company, and British GQ among others.

He has been the recipient of the Amnesty International Media Award for Excellence in Human Rights Journalism, the American Society of Journalists and Authors award for reporting on a significant topic, Environment Story of the Year by the Foreign Press Association and Feature Writer of the Year in the Press Gazette Magazine and Design Awards among many others. His work has been anthologized in the Best American Crime Writing. On winning Exclusive of the Year at the Magazine Design and Journalism Awards the judges said, "It shows Green's painstaking research and dogged determination and belief that a story must be followed to the bitter end."

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	Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal 4.29 avg rating — 980 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy and Escape from Tibet 3.82 avg rating — 617 ratings — published 2010 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 by Jonathan Kellerman, Jonathan Green (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 3.99 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sex Money Murder Being Adapted for TV

Thank you to all the readers of Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood and Betrayal. Some of you may be interested to hear that the book is being adapted for a possible TV show produced by 50 Cent and Oscar-winning producer Nicole Rocklin.

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“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
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“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
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“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. Not at the head, where a fatal wound might result. But at some other body part, such as a leg.”
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“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.”
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