Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellin Cartel an Astonishing True Story of Murder Money and International Corruption

Guy Gugliotta · Jeff Leen

Aug 2018 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Paul Woodson

About this audiobook

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 ragtag 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.

About the author

Guy Gugliotta is the author of Freedom's Cap and coeditor of Swift Boats at War in Vietnam.

Jeff Leen is Assistant Managing Editor for Investigations at the Washington Post and the author of The Queen of the Ring.

Paul Woodson has won SOVAS and AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has recorded close to 350 audiobooks in many different genres-including romance, fiction, history, biography, and mystery. A member of SAG-AFTRA, Paul received his BFA in acting from Boston University.