Kings of Cocaine

Prize-winning Miami Herald reporters Guy Gugliotta and Jeff Leen deliver the definitive account of the Colombian narcotics organization that commanded eighty percent of the world's cocaine market. This revealing story chronicles the rise of its four masterminds—Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez, Carlos Lehder Rivas, and Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha—who transformed the cocaine trade from small-time smuggling to an unimaginably sophisticated global empire. From a ragtag group to ruthless kings, these men manipulated world leaders, corrupted revolutionary movements, and employed brutal violence to build the modern cocaine business.

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