Snowblind - Softcover

One of the first books about the cocaine trade and it is still among the best. * * Norman Mailer * * A flat-out ballbuster. It moves like a threshing machine with a fuel tank of ether. * * Hunter S. Thompson * * An extremely rare cut of dry wit, poetry, rock-hard fact and relentless insight into modern American morality. * * Rolling Stone * * Sabbag is an incisive reporter and a stylish class-A writer. * * The Times * * The scammer's bible . . . As predicted by Billie Bronx, Snowblind has stood the test of time. It's still the best. * * Howard Marks * * Un-put-downable . . . the best book ever written about cocaine. * * Loaded * *

When it was first published in the mid-seventies, Snowblind established itself as an essential piece of true crime writing. The story of the legendary Zachary Swan, a mover in the cocaine trade in the sixties who set the standard for all who followed, Sabbag's riveting account is a compulsive insight into an underworld populated by crazy characters and riven by paranoia. The result is an illuminating and wild book that influenced a generation of writers and smugglers.