Freeway Rick Ross has a book. I haven't read it, so I can't really say how good it is. There is another book you might be interested in called The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood. It's not exactly what you are looking for, but if you are interested in this subject I would highly recommend reading it.

ask that to the former members of the purple gang

https://www.amazon.com/But-Was-Good-His-Mother/dp/9652292494

FAIRNESS AND ACCURACY IN MEDIA COVERAGE OF CONTRA CRACK
http://web.archive.org/web/20121025005853/http://www.fair.org/issues-news/contra-crack.html
Gary Webb Explains how the media caved in
http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/taking-a-dive-on-contra-crack/
http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/exposed-the-contra-crack-connection/

Contra-Crack

See also FAIR's resources on Covert Operations, Drugs and Latin America.

Extra! articles:

• Snow Job: The Establishment's Papers Do Damage Control for the CIA, by Norman Solomon (1-2/97)
  
• Exposed: The Contra-Crack Connection (10/96)
  
• Time Suppresses Contra Drug Story (11-12/91)
  
• Censored News: Oliver North & Co. Banned from Costa Rica (10-11/89)
  
• Nicaragua's Drug Connection Exposed as Hoax (7-8/88)
  
• Media Censor CIA Ties With Medellin Drug Cartel (3-4/88)
  
• Washington's Worst Kept Secret: The Contra Drug Connection (6/87)
  
  CounterSpin broadcasts:
  
  
• Jeff Cohen on Gary Webb (12/17/04)
  
• Jeffrey St. Clair on the CIA (7/31/98)
  
• Contra/Crack Special (Part II) (1/3/97)
  
• Contra/Crack Special (Part I) (12/27/96)
  
• The CIA's complicity with drug lords (10/25/96)
  
• Crack and the CIA (9/13/96)
  
  Links:
  
  
• The Consortium's Contra Crack Series
  
• We The People CIA-drugs web site
  
• Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, by Gary Webb
  
• Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
  
• Fooling America: How Washington Insiders Twist the Truth and Manufacture the Conventional Wisdom, by Robert Parry