American Desperado - My Life As a Cocaine Cowboy

'' 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

• Authors: Jon Roberts, Roberts Jon, Evan Wright, Evan Roberts Wright, Wright Evan
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.12.2018
• EAN: 9780091949419
• ISBN: 978-0-09-194941-9
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 34 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; True Crime, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime, Drugs trade / drug trafficking