Kings of Cocaine

Inside the Medellin Cartel - An Astonishing True Story of Murder Money and International Corruption

By: Guy Gugliotta, Jeff Leen

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

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 50 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.

©1989 Guy Gugliotta and Jeff Leen (P)2018 Tantor

good but incomplete

Good recap of the Colombian involvement in the USA war on drugs. Unfortunately, there was more to the story. Obviously, the author is at no fault but in retrospect the story would be even better if told in its entirety. No matter, it was a good listen.

Wow Very Detailed

Plenty of details plenty of villains and very detailed some people might get lost in the weeds but everything ties into each other

many very accurate facts

narration was easy on the ears and engaging. a lot of information not included in MANY publications on this topic were included here

The Jackal

Awesome audiobook it broke down lots of the players in the coke game from the US and from Colombia Carlos was one of the main focal points. it makes me wanna go back and watch Blow again just to see how sneaky his character is. Great book give it a listen

very informative

very informative fills in the blanks that the cocaine cowboys left out of there story