Several years earlier, Egan and his partner, renowned for their nonstop pursuit of drug dealers, had made the largest heroin arrest in history: worth $32 million uncut, or about $250 million on the street.
Sometimes you get out of school for the summer, you feel good to be done studying physics or whatever, and you decide it's an appropriate time to do drugs nonstop for several weeks.
It's like a three-day rave for art-damaged dirtbags who comb South Beach for pretty shells, spare change, and drugs, partying nonstop except to crash on the sand or in Rat's condo.
It suggested that if the Nonstop method were spread throughout the drug industry, nearly half of the $18 billion in capital tied up in the inventory demand chain would be liberated and put to better use.
The Nonstop algorithm analyzed the sales patterns of each drug by retail location, and also the demand trends of all 362 retail stores.
Four months later every drug in the warehouse was running under the Nonstop program.
Perhaps the ideal of a 50% reduction in the drugstore industry's inventory is not achievable, says Roath, but surely $7 billion can be stripped away if every drug chain and wholesaler uses a method like Nonstop's.
It includes drug use, gunfire, hand-to-hand violence, intense sexual suggestiveness and almost nonstop four-letter words.
