Length4h 37m
About this audiobook
A seventeen-year-old lies dead on the pavement. A sixteen-year-old stands accused. America believes it has found the beginning of the crime. Nobody believes it has found only the end.
In Nobody Followed the Money Backward, Vernon Snell turns American violence into a sweeping Poetic Cinema investigation. Nobody follows the weapon beyond the child holding it—through the street, prison, news media, entertainment, politics, policing, law, banking, corporations, slavery, colonization, occupied land, and royal power. Alongside Nothing, History, Science, Government, Commerce, Law, Street Knowledge, Memory, Faith, Emotion, and the World Engine, he asks who profits, who suffers, and who remains protected by distance.
This book does not excuse individual violence or reduce history to one conspiracy. It exposes a harder truth: responsibility may be shared, but power and consequences are never shared equally. At what distance from the body does crime stop being called crime?
Audiobook details
GenreHumor, Poetry
Length4 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 25, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1COPYRIGHT AND PUBLICATION PAGE
2A NOTE ON THIS WORK
3WHAT IS POETIC CINEMA?
4WHAT IS A NOBODY INVESTIGATION?
5THE RECURRING CAST — PART ONE
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6THE RECURRING CAST — PART TWO
7THE SERIES SIGNATURE
8THE READING AND EVIDENCE LADDER
9DOCUMENTED HISTORY
10ESTABLISHED OR DEVELOPING SCIENCE
11INTERPRETATION
12HYPOTHESIS
13SATIRE
14METAPHOR
15POETIC TRUTH
16THE MASTER RULES
17HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE
18DEDICATION
19EPIGRAPH
20BEFORE THE INVESTIGATION
21AUTHOR’S NOTE
22OPENING CASE STATEMENT Part 1
23OPENING CASE STATEMENT Part 2
24WHERE DID THE GUN COME FROM?
25WHY WAS THIS CORNER ALREADY WAITING FOR HIM?
26THE PRISON WAITING BEFORE THE CRIME
27THE NEWS CAMERA ARRIVES
28TEEN EXECUTED ON TROUBLED BLOCK
29GANG VIOLENCE CLAIMS ANOTHER TEEN
30ANOTHER NIGHT OF BLOODSHED
31POLICE INVESTIGATING POSSIBLE GANG AND DRUG CONNECTIONS
32THE GANGSTER BECOMES ENTERTAINMENT
33THE POLITICIAN PROMISES SAFETY
34PROTECT US
35DO NOT PUNISH US
36THE POLICE RECEIVE THEIR ASSIGNMENT
37THE LAWS CHOOSE THEIR CRIMINALS
38THE BANK WASHES ITS HANDS
39THE CORPORATION MANUFACTURES THE TOOLS
40THE GOVERNMENT IMPORTS AND EXPORTS POWER
41THE PLANTATION CHANGES CLOTHES
42THE AUCTION BECOMES AN ECONOMY
43THE SHIP CARRIES THE ORIGINAL CONTRABAND
44THE LAND IS DECLARED AVAILABLE
45THE CROWN GIVES PERMISSION
46COMMERCE DRAWS THE MAP
47NOBODY REACHES THE BEGINNING Part 1
48NOBODY REACHES THE BEGINNING Part 2
49END STATEMENT
50WHAT THE INVESTIGATION FOUND
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