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Roberts, Jon.
American Desperado
[Libby] :
My Life—From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset.
Crown,
2011.
Miami.
True Crime.
celebrity.
Biography.
conspiracy.
florida.
Columbia.
sociopath.
autobiographies.
Prison.
mafia.
Organized Crime.
gangs.
crime.
entertaining.
Judges.
killers.
immoral.
gangster.
Drug smuggling.
murder .
corrupt.
cocaine.
mob boss.
true story.
FBI.
biographies.
New York.
violence.
CIA.
mafioso.
corruption.
politicians.
1980s.
True stories.
criminal.
biographies and memoirs.
drug cartels.
crime books.
tell all.
cocaine addiction.
medellin.
medellin cartel.
prison time.
true crime books.
biographies of famous people.
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Biography & Autobiography.
True Crime.
Nonfiction.
HTML:<b>The true story of super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the documentary <i>Cocaine Cowboys. </i></b><br />  <br /> <i>American Desperado</i> is Roberts’ no-holds-barred account of being born into Mafia royalty, witnessing his first murder at the age of seven, becoming a hunter-assassin in Vietnam, returning to New York to become—at age 22—one of the city’s leading nightclub impresarios, then journeying to Miami where in a few short years he would rise to become the Medellin Cartel’s most effective smuggler.<br />  <br /> But that’s just <i>half</i> the tale. <br />  <br /> The roster of Roberts’ friends and acquaintances reads like a Who’s Who of the latter half of the 20th century and includes everyone from Jimi Hendrix, Richard Pryor, and O.J. Simpson to Carlo Gambino, Meyer Lansky, and Manuel Noriega.<br />  <br /> Nothing if not colorful, Roberts surrounded himself with beautiful women, drove his souped-up street car at a top speed...
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