Snowblind
A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade
Published on 1. March 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-78211-880-0 (ISBN)
Description
Zachary Swan: world-class smuggler of the finest cocaine, wicked genius, first-class fool. In his brief and brilliant career as a founding father of the trade, Swan serves the world's most elegant clientele by the most inelegant means, always staying just one step ahead.
Robert Sabbag's rip-roaring modern classic of reporting follows Zachary from the streets of Bogota to the nightclubs of New York, charting the soaring high and the crashing comedown of a legend.
Robert Sabbag's rip-roaring modern classic of reporting follows Zachary from the streets of Bogota to the nightclubs of New York, charting the soaring high and the crashing comedown of a legend.
Reviews / Votes
Sabbag is an incisive reporter and a stylish class-A writer * * The Times * * A flat-out ballbuster. It moves like a threshing machine with a fuel tank of ether * * Hunter S. Thompson * * One of the first books about the cocaine trade and it is still among the best * * Norman Mailer * * An extremely rare cut of dry wit, poetry, rock-hard fact and relentless insight into modern American morality * * Rolling Stone * * The scammer's bible . . . Snowblind has stood the test of time. It's still the best * * Howard Marks * * Un-put-downable . . . the best book ever written about cocaine * * Loaded * *More details
Series
Edition
Main - Canons
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Canongate Books
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 131 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
276 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78211-880-0 (9781782118800)
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Robert Sabbag is the bestselling 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.