A brutal and gripping autobiography by the original Cocaine Cowboy and real-life Scarface, the man responsible for flooding 1980s US with cocaine, co-written by Evan Wright, author of Generation Kill
Jon Roberts (Author)
JON ROBERTS was, prior to his incarceration, among the most
successful drug smugglers in American history, at one point
overseeing an operation that accounted for more than half of the
cocaine entering the US. He collaborated with some of the most
notorious criminals of his era, including Pablo Escobar and General
Noriega, was a key player in the Iran-Contra affair, and starred in
the hit documentary Cocaine Cowboys. Jon died in 2011.
Evan Wright (Author)
EVAN WRIGHT is the author of Generation Kill, one of the most
celebrated books on the Iraq War and recently adapted by David
Simon into a 7-hour HBO miniseries. He is a recipient of the
National Magazine Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Award, a
PEN/Faulkner Award and a Lukas Book Prize. He is also a
contributing editor to Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair.
An American criminal mastermind
*Sunday Times*
A spellbinding narrative of drugs, death and debauchery as told by
one of America's most notorious criminals... A savage, unrelenting
tale
*Kirkus Reviews*
A tour de force. The best crime book since Wiseguy. Puts you in the
middle of a world where it's wonderful to be a tourist, terrible to
be a resident. I am filled with nothing but admiration and envy for
Evan Wright
*Rich Cohen, author of THE FISH THAT ATE THE WHALE*
Imagine if Mister Kurtz from Heart of Darkness sat down with Dick
Cavett for a little chat about the nature of good and evil,
empathy, fatherhood, violence, drugs, power, self-knowledge, women,
family, the hero versus the anti-hero, freedom, imprisonment...Try
as you might, you can't really put this book down
*Doug Stanton, author of HORSE SOLDIERS and IN HARM’S WAY*
Seldom have I read an account of criminal enterprise that took me
so deeply into the blackness of a man’s soul – a scary read,
pounding and relentless and irresistible
*Bruce Porter, author of BLOW*
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