Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade

Called "a triumphant piece of reporting" (The New Yorker), Snowblind is an all-out, nonstop, and now classic look at the cocaine trade through the eyes of smuggler Zachary Swan. In a brief Roman-candle career, Swan served an elegant clientele, traveling between Bogota and the nightclubs of New York, inventing intricate scams to outmaneuver the feds. Creating diversions that were characteristically baroque, surviving on ingenuity and idiot's luck, he discovered in the process a hip, dangerous, high-velocity world that Robert Sabbag evokes with extraordinary power and humor. "One of the best books about drugs ever written." — Robert Stone "A flat-out ballbuster. It moves like a threshing machine with a fuel tank full of ether...." — Hunter S. Thompson "One of the first books about the cocaine trade and it is still among the best." — Norman Mailer