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Publisher:
Bantam Books a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.
Published:
1989
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17512784766
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Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. COVER ART: Alan Ayers. CONTENTS: Cast of Characters; Prologue: The Education of Jack Blum; Part One The Cocaine Explosion; Part Two A Nation for Sale; Part Three On the Ragged Edge of Anarchy; Part Four War Without Will; Endgames; Notes and Sources; Acknowledgments; Index. SYNOPSIS: DEATH. POWER. MONEY. THE COCAINE WARS It is the world's most valuable commodity. It is a business bigger than the Ford Motor Company. It is cocaine, and a single, ruthless, savagely sophisticated entity controls the empire: the Colombian Cartel. For two and a half years, the authors lived on the front lines of this story, and they provide an astonishing, disturbing inside look at the Cartel and its operators: the millionaires and enforcers, the smugglers and informers. The Cocaine Wars takes us from the jungles of South America where the coca is grown to the streets of Miami where drug money has corrupted at least one in every ten cops. With unlimited wealth and power at stake, whole governments can be bought ands old, and almost every man has his price. The Cocaine Wars is investigative reporting that reads like a crime thriller but has the chocking impact of today's headlines. For the first time, here is the full story of the traffic in cocaine, the story of the war now being waged--and lost--on the streets all across America. -and-SOME PEOPLE YOU WILL MEET IN THE COCAINE WARS" JORGE LUIS OCHOA, overlord of the Cartel: to investigate him is to court assassination. GRISELDA BLANCO DE TRUJILLO, the "Godmother" of the drug business. RAUL DIAZ, "the most dangerous man in Miami." RICARDO "THE MONKEY" MORALES, hit man and notorious double-crosser. LUIS "KOJAK" GARCIA, perhaps the most successful smuggler of them all, the man who bought the Bahamas. As well as a group of Miami police officers who stole shipments of cocaine and left the smugglers to drown, a Drug Enforcement Administration informant marked for death, and many others on both sides of the battle lines. Paul Eddy joined the Insight Team of the Sunday Times of London in 1976 and was its editor for four years. Before that he spent almost two years in the United States working on Destination Disaster, his newspaper's much-acclaimed book about the airplane industry. He contributed to Insight's The Yom Kippur War, and was the coauthor of five other books: The Hughes Papers, The Plumbat Affair, Siege! , War in the Falklands, and The DeLorean Tapes. Hugo Sabogal has worked for news agencies, television and El Tiempo (where he was city editor) in Bogota, Colombia, and for BBC Television in London where he was a documentary producer. Sara Walden was chief researcher for the Insight Team and coauthor of The DeLorean Tapes. The authors have lived in Miami since the inception of this project in September 1985.
