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American Desperado: My Life as a Cocaine Cowboy
Jon Roberts And Evan Wright
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Description for American Desperado: My Life as a Cocaine Cowboy
paperback. Like a real-life Scarface Jon was born into the upper levels of the Gambino crime family and witnessed his first murder at age seven. He became a one-man juvenile crime wave before joining an assassination squad in Vietnam. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations (black and white, and colour). BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; JKVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
`The best crime book since Wiseguy' - Rich Cohen A real-life Scarface, Jon was born into the Gambino Mafia family and witnessed his first murder aged seven. He joined a US Army assassination squad in Vietnam to escape a teen criminal charge, then fled New York to reinvent himself in Miami as the number one supplier of cocaine in the US. With a crazed bodyguard always at his side, and a fortress protected by mortars, tear-gas cannons, and a gold-fanged attack dog, Roberts was brutally effective at what he did. With a cast that includes everyone from Jimi Hendrix and OJ Simpson to the CIA and General Noriega, American Desperado is a hedonistic, adrenaline-soaked joyride through the world of Escobar and the cartels, told by one of most successful criminals of all time.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Ebury Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780091949419
SKU
9780091949419
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About Jon Roberts And Evan Wright
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.
Reviews for American Desperado: My Life as a Cocaine Cowboy
An American criminal mastermind
Ed Caesar
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
Ed Caesar
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