The Bluegrass Conspiracy
An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs, and Murder

This book delves into the life of a Kentucky blueblood who apparently had an adventurish streak and evolved from being a Lexington narcotics detective to being found dead on a rural Kentucky farm with a malfunctioning parachute and multiple kilos of cocaine strapped to his body. (I can't remember th......more

The Lexington area bluebloods (Old Lexingtonians) were/are struggling to keep their land and horse farms due to the encroachment of development and the offers from developers to buy (yes, we do need several more Walgreens on every corner in Bourbon, Woodford and Jessamine Counties, don't we?) their......more

This is not a terrible book, but it's so slow...I kept glazing over, and then couldn't quite keep up with the huge cast of characters! The narrator often reads the second half of a sentence, which is also very distracting! It is a shame, as the true story sounds really interesting.......more

I had to quit this book a little over halfway through. Just awfully written, and after so many reprints, I don't know how there can be that many typos left throughout. It was really distracting. Also, a book like this with so many players involved in the story really needs to have some photographs i......more