Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellín Cartel - An Astonishing True Story of Murder, Money and International Corruption

Guy Gugliotta · Jeff Leen

Jul 2011 · Garrett County Press

About this ebook

This is the story of the most successful cocaine dealers in the world: Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez, Carlos Lehder Rivas and Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha. In the 1980s they controlled more than fifty percent of the cocaine flowing into the United States. The cocaine trade is capitalism on overdrive -- supply meeting demand on exponential levels. Here you'll find the story of how the modern cocaine business started and how it turned a rag tag group of hippies and sociopaths into regal kings as they stumbled from small-time suitcase smuggling to levels of unimaginable sophistication and daring. The $2 billion dollar system eventually became so complex that it required the manipulation of world leaders, corruption of revolutionary movements and the worst kind of violence to protect.

Ratings and reviews

A well written account of a very interesting series of events, compiled from various sources including first hand accounts of many who were there and lived through it. Couldn't put it down...

This is one of my favorite stories. I know the guys they talk about in this story, so learning more about them really excites me!!

Good read but same old stories found in every other book on the Cartel .