Face Off – How George Erik Marquardt  Compares To Breaking Bad’s Fictional Walter White

By John Madinger | August 28, 2024

My latest book, LETHAL DOSES: The Story Behind the Godfather of Fentanyl was released Tuesday, August 27, 2024. It’s the true story of the man DEA called “the best and most dangerous clandestine chemist” the agency ever encountered. George Erik “Squeak” Marquardt, a high school dropout and self-taught “chemistry genius,” became a professional criminal at age […]

LETHAL DOSES takes readers inside the twisted world of the man who brought Fentanyl to America

By John Madinger | August 14, 2024

On a cold afternoon in February 1991, a frightening new drug hit the streets of New York City, a synthetic narcotic marketed in packets labeled “Tango & Cash.” As police scrambled to warn heroin users of the danger, the overdose victims began piling up in hospital emergency rooms and county morgues across three states.   As […]

NEW AUDIOBOOK AVAILABLE NOW! In THE LEWISTON SHOOTINGS, Robert Conlin Chronicles The Personal Stories Of A Deeply Scarred Community

By Michael Cordova | August 7, 2024

  Never again could anyone say, “It will never happen here.”  Because it did. October 25, 2023 was just an ordinary night in Lewiston, a small, working class city of 37,000 in central Maine. Friends and families had gathered to do what they loved to do with the people they wanted to be with at […]