Kings of Cocaine, Guy Gugliotta
Kings of Cocaine, Guy Gugliotta
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Kings of Cocaine
Inside the Medellin Cartel an Astonishing True Story of Murder Money and International Corruption

Author: Guy Gugliotta, Jeff Leen

Narrator: Paul Woodson

Unabridged: 14 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/14/2018

Synopsis

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 fifty 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.

About Guy Gugliotta

Guy Gugliotta is an accomplished journalist, author, and historian known for his deep investigative reporting and compelling storytelling. With a career spanning decades, he has covered everything from war and politics to science and history, contributing to publications such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, and National Geographic. A former foreign correspondent and congressional reporter, Gugliotta has a keen ability to distill complex topics into engaging narratives. His books, including Freedom’s Cap: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War, offer rich historical insights, blending meticulous research with vivid storytelling. Whether chronicling pivotal moments in American history or exploring cutting-edge scientific discoveries, Gugliotta brings a journalist's rigor and a historian's perspective to everything he writes.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sergio

The title of this book is somewhat misleading. It doesn't take us "inside the Medellín cartel" but rather it condenses a lot of public knowledge information from newspaper articles, interviews and court records. The author does not seem to have spent one second "inside the Medellín cartel" or ever ha......more

Goodreads review by Harmeet

Great book. Almost read like a fiction thriller. However, it has one major defect that prevents me from recommending. It is old. 1989 release. A lot has likely changed since then. Still it was interesting to read how nasty cocaine is and a perspective on how it's trafficking grew.......more

Goodreads review by Bearcatgary

Read the condensed version from the 1989 Readers Digest Best Nonfiction. Started out really interesting, but got tedious quickly when so many of the good guys were slaughtered by the Medellin cartel. But still a good book that sheds light on just how dominant the drug cartels were in Columbia and ho......more

Goodreads review by Scott

(Audiobook) This book is a little dated, but the back story of how South Florida grew into such a hotbed for drug trafficking in the 1980s, as well as how the drug cartels in Colombia grew into such a political and destructive force for that country is very instructive. With drugs, it is so much abo......more

Goodreads review by Lu

From the book you can definetely gain additional knowlede on subject matter. Especially if you knew almost nothing before you start reading :)) But my personal rating is 2 out of 5. The book has nothing to do with fiction and detective genre. It feels more like you've read dozens of newspapers in a r......more

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