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Cocaine Confidential: True Stories Behind the World's Most Notorious Narcotic
By (Author) Wensley Clarkson
Quercus Publishing
Quercus Publishing
3rd April 2014
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Drugs trade / drug trafficking
363.45
Paperback
304
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 27mm
394g
Cocaine is the world's most notorious narcotic. It underpins a vast, multi-billion pound underworld with a dark and deadly side. But who really are the shadowy people behind this chilling network The coca farmers, the jungle sweat-shop workers, the smugglers, the suppliers, and, ultimately, the dealers who provide for the world's hundreds of millions of users. Cocaine Confidential goes inside the lives of all these characters to reveal their stories for the first time.
Along the way you'll meet hitmen, pimps, desperate former international footballers, coke barons, mules, hardened traffickers and corrupt cops as the truth is unravelled in a roller coaster ride through this secret world.Wensley Clarkson has written numerous true crime books, including biographies of Brink's-Mat defendant Kenneth Noye, ex-Great Train Robber Charlie Wilson, and legendary south London criminal Jimmy Moody. The Noye book was one of the ten bestselling true crime titles of the 1990s, and in total Wensley has sold over one million books worldwide.