Prisoner of War now on sale

Prisoner of War: The Story of White Boy Rick and the War on Drugs is now on sale and now available for purchase through Amazon and bookstores.

Amazon customers can go to Books and enter the title or my name, Vince Wade. Purchase options include a digital Kindle e-book or a paperback version.

The book is also available by order through Barnes & Noble and other bookstores.

This is the true story of White Boy Rick Wershe, recruited by the FBI at age 14 to become a paid informant in the deadly drug underworld. He was the Detroit FBI’s most productive drug informant of the 1980s until he told on powerful, politically connected people. The FBI dropped him suddenly as an informant. Wershe, who came from a dysfunctional family, turned to the only trade he knew: the one law enforcement taught him. He tried to become a cocaine wholesaler. He was caught, convicted and sentenced to life in prison. The FBI didn’t help him because to do so would expose their role in using a teen as a paid snitch and their falsification of their own files to hide the informant work of White Boy Rick. Corrupt members of Detroit’s criminal justice system were enraged that Wershe told on their on-the-take colleagues. They waged a vendetta to keep him in prison until he dies. Rick Wershe, Jr. became a Prisoner of War—the War on Drugs.

This book recounts the history of America’s War on Drugs and the repeated enforcement failures similar to the total failure of Prohibition. It also explains how the never-ending battle against drugs has been used as a political tool of oppression of minorities and how politicians of both parties caused the current mass incarceration scandal in their eagerness to appear “tough on crime.”