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Kings of Cocaine

Inside the Medellin Cartel - An Astonishing True Story of Murder Money and International Corruption

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Kings of Cocaine

By: Guy Gugliotta, Jeff Leen
Narrated by: Paul Woodson
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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 50 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.

©1989 Guy Gugliotta and Jeff Leen (P)2018 Tantor Organized Crime True Crime Latin America Africa
Insightful Historical Account • Impressive Detailed Research • Informative Cartel History • Well-written Narrative
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Good recap of the Colombian involvement in the USA war on drugs. Unfortunately, there was more to the story. Obviously, the author is at no fault but in retrospect the story would be even better if told in its entirety. No matter, it was a good listen.

good but incomplete

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Plenty of details plenty of villains and very detailed some people might get lost in the weeds but everything ties into each other

Wow Very Detailed

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narration was easy on the ears and engaging. a lot of information not included in MANY publications on this topic were included here

many very accurate facts

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This is straight from the top level reporting of the 1980s drug wars. The book is a gem from the era that has stood the test of time. Not big on conjecture or opinion. Just solid reporting.

No other book like it

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Really enjoyed this. It was like a jigsaw puzzle and I was invested in the story. Didn't drag or slow it was really enjoyable. Planning on reading it again.

Kept me engrossed from start to finsh

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really takes you inside the cocaine machine of the medellin cartel and the others involved.

great book

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It got indepth into the Ochoas and Carlos Lehder. A good listen. The narrator could have had a little more enthusiasm as the mono tone gets tiring but over all i still give it 5 stars

One of the better Narco books

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Awesome audiobook it broke down lots of the players in the coke game from the US and from Colombia Carlos was one of the main focal points. it makes me wanna go back and watch Blow again just to see how sneaky his character is. Great book give it a listen

The Jackal

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very informative fills in the blanks that the cocaine cowboys left out of there story

very informative

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Very much enjoyed this book and excellent detail of the drug cartel. Highly recommend reading this

Excellent book

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