Smokescreen / Snowblind
Published on 29. March 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
800 pages
978-1-84195-820-0 (ISBN)
Description
Snowblind and Smokescreen are internationally recognised as the funniest and most illuminating books ever to have been written about the drug trade.
Introduced by Howard 'Mr Nice' Marks, Sabbag's classic, high-octane accounts of legendary cocaine smuggler Zachary Smith and pot smuggler Allen Long achieved cult status when Damien Hirst designed a limited edition of Snowblind (featuring a mirror cover, credit card bookmark and a $100 bill hidden inside).
Introduced by Howard 'Mr Nice' Marks, Sabbag's classic, high-octane accounts of legendary cocaine smuggler Zachary Smith and pot smuggler Allen Long achieved cult status when Damien Hirst designed a limited edition of Snowblind (featuring a mirror cover, credit card bookmark and a $100 bill hidden inside).
Reviews / Votes
One of the first books about the cocaine trade and still among the best. -- Norman Mailer Wisecracking and higly informative. * * Sunday Telegraph * * Sabbag is a first-rate writer . . . His book is a triumphant piece of reporting. * * New Yorker * * Makes membrane-zingingly good drama-documentary. . . * * Esquire * * Sabbag is an incisive reporter and a stylish class-A writer. * * The Times * * An extremely rare cut of dry wit, poetry, rock-hard fact and relentless insight into modern American morality. * * Rolling Stone * * Blistering reportage with a matchless line-up of renegades . . . * * Observer * *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 52 mm
Weight
560 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84195-820-0 (9781841958200)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Robert Sabbag is the best-selling author of the drug smuggling classics Snowblind and Smokescreen, and the definitive book on the U.S. Marshals, Too Tough to Die. His journalism appears in numerous magazines, among them Rolling Stone, to which he is a regular contributor. Witness Protection, based on his New York Times Magazine cover story, "The Invisible Family", was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture.