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It was the spring and coil of 1987, and split cocaine had converted whole swaths of Detroit into veritable combat zones. The town thought it possessed seen everything - until one night time that May, when the police imprisoned a 17-year-old youngster known as Rick Wershe. They called him White Son Rick. Inside a city known for its fraught racial separate, Wershe had in some way joined the ranks of the drug kingpins on the mainly black East Area before he was old enough to shave. He flew in kilos of cocaine from Miami and drove a white Jeep along with the SNOWMAN emblazoned over the back again. An incredulous judge once compared him to the gangster "Baby Face" Nelson. He looked like more an metropolitan legend when compared to a real person - and then his storyline received even stranger. Years later, while he was in jail for cocaine ownership, Wershe claimed he previously been working with the FBI since he was 14. Was one of Detroit's most notorious criminals also one of the feds' most effective informants in the town? Journalist Evan Hughes attempt to untangle fact from fiction in Wershe's improbable storyline, searching for the retailers, cops, and federal agents who distributed the avenues with him and eventually achieving Wershe himself at the rural Michigan jail where he remains incarcerated. The Studies of White Son Rick is a gripping true-crime saga of concealed motives and betrayed trust - and reveals never-before-reported information recommending why Wershe continues to be behind bars.
