Book description
The rise - and fall - of the outlaw lords of the drug world, from
the Cali Cartel, the richest, most powerful crime syndicate in
history, to Britain's biggest drug baron, Curtis 'Cocky' Warren and
the 'Essex Triple Murders'. From freewheeling cannabis operations to
the lethal 'heaviness' of organized crime, the doings of the dealers,
bouncers, bagmen and 'taxmen' - those crazy enough to extort money
from drug dealers - of a ruthlessly violent underworld. Here you will
find an account of the pursuit and capture of 'Mr Nice', Howard Marks
(along with the complementary recollections of Mrs Marks), the story
of the hunt for Pablo Escobar and an in-depth piece on cocaine
production deep in the Colombian interior. This is the
no-holds-barred, inside story of drug trafficking, from the Golden
Triangle to the Golden Gate and from Spain's Costa del Crime to the
future of conflict and prohibition with its fresh cast of Afghan
warlords and central European gangsters. It examines how and why
things go wrong, and the price which is paid when they do.
