Full name: Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade

Author: Robert Sabbag Year: 1976 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, True crime, Biographies, Mystery, Crime, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780802135896 0802135897

Called "a triumphant piece of reporting" (The New Yorker), Snowblind is an all-out, nonstop, and now classic look at the cocaine trade through the eyes of smuggler Zachary Swan. In a brief Roman-candle career, Swan served an elegant clientele, traveling between Bogota and the nightclubs of New York, inventing intricate scams to outmaneuver the feds. Creating diversions that were characteristically baroque, surviving on ingenuity and idiot's luck, he discovered in the process a hip, dangerous, high-velocity world that Robert Sabbag evokes with extraordinary power and humor. "One of the best books about drugs ever written." -- Robert Stone "A flat-out ballbuster. It moves like a threshing machine with a fuel tank full of ether...." -- Hunter S. Thompson "One of the first books about the cocaine trade and it is still among the best." -- Norman Mailer Similar books: Blow by Bruce Porter Marching Powder by Rusty Young Doctor Dealer by Mark Bowden Mr. Nice by Howard Marks Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale LSD by Albert Hofmann No Angel by Jay Dobyns Disco Bloodbath by James St. James Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore Blood Will Out by Walter Kirn Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides At the Devil's Table by William C. Rempel Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden Hell's Princess by Harold Schechter American Kingpin by Nick Bilton Furious Hours by Casey Cep The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett Ghosts of Mississippi by Maryanne Vollers Donnie Brasco by Joseph D. Pistone Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger