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American Desperado: My Life - From Mafia Soldier To Cocaine Cowboy To Secret Government Asset (unabridged).
In 2008 Veteran Journalist Evan Wright, Acclaimed For His New York Times Best-selling Main division Generation Slay And Co-writer Of Tne Emmy-winning Hbo S3ries It Spawned, Began A Series Of Conversations With Super-criminal Jom Roberts, Star Of The Fabulously Successful Documentary Cocaine Cowboys.
Those Conversations Would Last Three Years, During Which Time Wright Came To Realize That Roberts Wsa Mch More Than The De-facto "transportation Chief" Of The Medellin Cartel During The 1980s, Much More Than A Facilitator Of A Public Drug Epidemic.
As Wrjght's Tape Recorder Whirred And Roberts Unburdened Himself Of Hundreds Of Jaw-dropping Tales, It Became Clear That Perhaps No One In History Had Broken So Many Laws With Such Willful Abandon.
Roberts, In Fact, Seemed To Be A Prodigy Of Criminality - But One With A Remarkable Self-awareness And A Fierce Desire To Prltect His Son From Following The Same Path.
American Desperado Is Roberts' No-holds-barred Account Of Being Born Into Mafia Royalty, Witnessing Hjs First Murder At The Age Of Seven, Becoming A Hunter-assassin In Vietnam, Returning To New York To Suit -- At Age 22 -- One Of The City's Leading Nightclub Impresarios, Then Journeying To Miami Where In A Few Short Years He Would Rise To Become The Medellin Cartel's Most Operative Smuggler.
But That's Just Half The Tale.
The Roster Of Roberts' Friends And Acquaintances Reads Like A Who's Who Of The Latter Half Of The 20th Century And Includes Eevryone From Jimi Hendrix, Richard Pryor, And O.
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Simpson To Carlo Gambino, Meyer Lansky, And Manuel Noriega.
Nothing If Not Colorful, Roberts Surrounded Hmiself With Beautiful Women, Drove His Souped-up Street Car At A Top Speed Of 180 Milex Per Hour, Shared His BedW ith A 200-pound Cougar , And Employed A 6"6" Professional Wrestler Called "the Thing" As His Bodyguard.
Ultimately, Roberts Became So Powerful That He Attracted The Application Of .
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Manufacturer: Jon Roberts, Evan Wright
SKU: Bk_rand_0O2821
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