A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multimillion-dollar drug ring, leading to an unprecedented look at elite American fraternity life.

“Harrowing and disturbing. I have read about fraternity life but nothing like this. This book will blow your mind, each page digging deeper into the unimaginable—except every word is true.”—Buzz Bissinger, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Friday Night Lights and The Mosquito Bowl

When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a homicide, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep South. He also opened up a rarefied world hidden to outsiders. Behind the pop culture clichés of “Greek life” lies one of the major breeding grounds of American power: 80 percent of Fortune 500 executives, 85 percent of Supreme Court justices, and all but four presidents since 1825 have been fraternity members. With startling immersion, this book takes readers inside that gilded bubble.

Beneath the live oaks and the Spanish moss of Travel + Leisure’s “Most Beautiful Campus in America,” Marshall traces several “C of C” boys’ journeys from fraternity pledges to interstate drug traffickers. The result is a true-life story of hubris, status, money, drugs, and murder—one that lifts a curtain on an ecstatic and disturbing way of life. With expert pacing and a cool eye, he follows a never-ending party that continues after funerals and mass arrests.

An addictive and devastating portrait of tomorrow’s American establishment, Among the Bros is nonfiction storytelling at its finest.