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 ...
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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.
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Add this copy of Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellin Cartel-an to cart. $25.00, very good condition, Sold by Twice Sold Tales rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Simon and Schuster.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition, first printing. Octavo in boards over cloth spine. Very light wear to boards; interior clean and crisp; two short tears and some small stains to jacket, dampstains to jacket verso. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall.
Add this copy of Kings of Cocaine Inside the Medellin Cartel an to cart. $50.00, very good condition, Sold by Dunaway Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Saint Louis, MO, UNITED STATES, published by Simon & Schuster.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Second printing; Very Good or better in like dustjacket. Very light bumping, shallow crinkling at the spine ends of the jacket. On the front free endpaper is a warm inscription signed by Jeff Leen.
Add this copy of Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellin Cartel-an to cart. $59.95, good condition, Sold by GeorgeCrossBooks rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lexington, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Simon & Schuster.
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Fine/Very Good. . First edition, first printing. About fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket, now in a new Brodart Mylar protector. Unamrked, clean, tight. This is *NOT* an old library book.
Add this copy of Kings of Cocaine Inside the Medellin Cartel an to cart. $64.98, good condition, Sold by GeorgeCrossBooks rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lexington, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Simon & Schuster.
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Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. NOT a library book. Hardcover. Near fine with light wear to ends of boards. In a very good dust jacket with slight rubbing-protected in a new Brodart Mylar. Book is clean, tight, free of marks. Surprisingly uncommon in this condition....
Add this copy of Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellin Cartel--an to cart. $145.00, very good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Simon and Schuster.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by Leen. 391 p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Here is the most complete and revealing account ever of the Medellin Cartel, the powerful Colombian narcotics organization that controls as much as 80 percent of the world cocaine market, written by the Miami Herald reporters whose prizewinning series of articles broke the story.
