American Desperado: My life as a Cocaine Cowboy

Author: Jon Roberts and Evan Wright 

Condition: Good

Paperback 

A must read true crime biography for those who champion initiative, resilience and never giving up in the pursuit of the dream.

A brutal and gripping biography by the original Cocaine Cowboy and real-life Scarface, the man responsible for flooding 1980s US with cocaine, co-written by Evan Wright.

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 true crime world of Escobar and the cartels, told by one of most successful criminals of all time.

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