Add this copy of Easy Money to cart. $45.00, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Farrar Straus Giroux.
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Very good. Dust jacket in good condition. Second printing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Add this copy of Easy Money to cart. $56.00, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Farrar Straus Giroux.
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Good. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Former owner's bookplate, otherwise unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Add this copy of Easy Money to cart. $72.00, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Farrar Straus Giroux.
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Good. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages foxed, but absent any extraneous marks. New mylar added to ensure future enjoyment. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Add this copy of Easy Money to cart. $93.51, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Farrar Straus & Giroux.
Add this copy of Easy Money to cart. $258.61, very good condition, Sold by Lisa Van Munster rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Oshawa, ON, CANADA, published 1978 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SELLER'S NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL (NON CANADA OR USA) BUYERS: Additional shipping charges will be required and requested during the purchase process of this title. THE HIGH-ROLLING, SUPERFLYING, DRUG-POWERED WORLD OF THE SPANISH AND BLACK "MAFIAS". DESIGNED BY: Constance Fogler. JACKET DESIGN BY: Nanette Stevenson. SYNOPSIS: In the summer of 1972, addicts ranged frantically through the streets of every major city in the East looking for a connection. If they were lucky enough to find one, they were luckier still if they could afford the price. With the end of the French connection, the supply of heroin had virtually dried up. For Frank Matthews the situation was critical. Still under thirty, a former chicken thief from North Carolina, he had in two years flamboyantly risen to be the biggest dope dealer in the United States, with an organization of hundreds of people to hold together and tens of millions of dollars in working capital to employ. But there was still plenty of cocaine about, coming in through unstoppable leaks in the government's Caribbean defenses, and it was the apparent security of the route operated by George Ramos, Matthews's coke supplier, that inspired Matthews and his Corsican allies to test it with a trial shipment of nearly pure European heroin that would be worth $100 million when it finally reached the street. A young Cuban-American, Ramos was in his element in the violent, faction-ridden world of Miami's exile community, and comfortable too with cocaine-running, under the aegis of Miguel Garcia, his voodoo-enthralled godfather and mentor, who resembled Capone, down to the scar on his face. Heroin was another matter, but George found the prospect of very early retirement on a personal profit of about $3 million irresistible. A complex plan was formulated, involving delivery from Europe to Venezuela, then by DC-3 to Haiti (where the first cut would be made) and by freighter to Miami. But federal and local police were alerted by an informer and a game of cat and mouse began, enlivened until the moment of final disaster by hilarious as well as dramatic episodes. Frank Matthews was arrested and then jumped bail, leaving behind a $325, 000 bond. George Ramos became a government witness in order to avoid perhaps fifty years in prison. Much of this informative and entertaining book is told in his voice, that of a charming, articulate rogue. For the rest, Donald Goddard has used a variety of sources--including abundant materials and eyewitness accounts from the government side--to give us not only an exciting, suspenseful account of a gigantic caper, but also a sophisticated view of a social revolution, the takeover from the old Mob by the so-called Black Mafia and its Spanish-speaking counterparts of the inner-city street rackets, upsetting a balance of power unchallenged since the thirties. Donald Goddard is a native Londoner. After leaving Edinburgh University he worked as a journalist in Britain for a decade and then, during the sixties, in the United States, mainly on The New York Times. His shorter work has appeared in numerous magazines, among them Esquire, Playboy, and New York, and he is the author of three earlier books: Blimey! Another Book About London; Joey (a biography of gangster Joey Gallo); and The Last Days of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
