Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #155690 in Books
• Published on: 1998-10-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

From the Back Cover
"A flat-out ballbuster. It moves like a threshing machine with a fuel tank full of ether. . . . Sabbag is a whip-song writer."-Hunter S. Thompson

Snowblind is an all-out, nonstop, and now-classic look at the cocaine trade through the eyes of smuggler Zachary Swan. In a brief, Roman-candle career, Swan served an elegant clientele, traveling between Bogota and the nightclubs of New York, inventing intricate scams to outmaneuver the feds. Creating diversions that were characteristically baroque, surviving on ingenuity and idiot's luck, he discovered in the process a hip, dangerous, high-velocity world that Robert Sabbag evokes with extraordinary power and humor.

"One of the best books about drugs ever written."-Robert Stone

"One of the first books about the cocaine trade and it is still among the best."-Norman Mailer

"An extremely rare cut of dry wit, poetry, rock-hard fact and relentless insight."-Rolling Stone

"A triumphant piece of reporting."-The New Yorker

"A witty, intelligent, fiercely stylish, drug-induced exemplary tale."-Los Angeles Times

"The ultimate slide down the precipice of hip."-Susan Brownmiller

"One of the most dazzling and spectacular pieces of reporting I have ever read."-Nora Ephron

"A classic."-The National Review

Robert Sabbag is a regular contributor to Rolling Stones and writes for numerous national magazines. His book Too Tough to Die brought the U.S. Marshals to their current prominence in the popular media. His New York Times Magazine cover story on the Witness Protection Program is being adapted by HBO.

Customer Reviews

snow blind
This is one of the best books ever written about drug smuggling. Double crosses are the norm with ingenious smuggling scams. Sometimes written tongue in cheek the book details many ways and means to import dugs into the country. Although these ways and means are out of date today they nonetheless capture the spirit and ingenuity of drug smugglers.

Good story....Horribly told
I dont often review...actually this is my first. True crime is my favorite genre, so I have read many. This story sounded good from the review's. I question myself, because only one other reviewer came close to what I felt from this book. The author goes on and on and on describing things to the point that i kept forgetting what he was talking about. I also must admit to you I did not finish this book. For me a book is about pleasure and passing the time, even forgetting about time. I felt as if I was struggling to read this book.

Will be timeless
I just reread after 30 years and the book still holds up.