American Desperado: My life as a Cocaine Cowboy
Author(s): Evan Wright, Jon Roberts
'The best crime book since Wiseguy? - Rich CohenA 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 Information
General Fields
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- : Random House UK
- : EBURY PRESS - TRADE
- : 0.39
- : 01 December 2018
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- : books
Special Fields
- : Evan Wright, Jon Roberts
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 363.45092