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36%OFFRobert Sabbag - Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade - 9781841958187 - V9781841958187
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Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade

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Description for Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade Hardback. Recounts the activities of former cocaine smuggler and dealer, Zachary Swan, chronicling his outstanding scams and successes of the early 1970s and the comings and goings of his various associates, customers, and antagonists. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BG; JKVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 283 x 190 x 94. Weight in Grams: 1408.

This book recounts the activities of former cocaine smuggler and dealer, Zachary Swan, chronicling his outstanding scams and successes of the early 1970s and the comings and goings of his various associates, customers, and antagonists.

This is a limited edition, only 1000 copies have been made and feature unbelievable production values. The boards of the book are made from reinforced mirrors. Inside the book, the title page is numbered and signed by the collaborators - Damien Hirst, Howard Marks and Robert Sabbag - and there is a metal credit card as a bookmark in the style of an American Express card.

Inside the book, a special die-cut trench runs through the pages that feature Zachary Swan's most daring import/export manoeuvres, and inside this trench hides a real $100 bill, rolled up. The final three digits of the note, which were specially secured from the US Treasury, correspond to the number of the edition from the run of one thousand. The edition comes in a special slip case featuring the same artwork as the endpapers: reproduced dollar bills, and all copies are numbered, sealed and protected when bought.

Product Details

Publisher
Canongate Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841958187
SKU
V9781841958187
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-84

About Robert Sabbag
Robert Sabbag is the best-selling author of the drug smuggling classics Snowblind and Smokescreen, and the definitive book on the U.S. Marshals, Too Tough to Die. His journalism appears in numerous magazines, among them Rolling Stone, to which he is a regular contributor. Witness Protection, based on his New York Times Magazine cover story, "The Invisible Family", was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture.

Reviews for Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade
One of the first books about the cocaine trade and still among the best.
Norman Mailer Wisecracking and higly informative.

Sunday Telegraph

Sabbag is a first-rate writer . . . His book is a triumphant piece of reporting.

New Yorker

Makes membrane-zingingly good drama-documentary. . .

Esquire

Sabbag is an incisive reporter and a stylish class-A writer.

The Times

An extremely rare cut of dry wit, poetry, rock-hard fact and relentless insight into modern American morality.

Rolling Stone

Blistering reportage with a matchless line-up of renegades . . .

Observer


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