# American Desperado

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- Book: [American Desperado](https://www.bookquiver.com/jon-roberts/american-desperado) ([American Desperado.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jon-roberts/american-desperado.md))
- Authors: [Jon Roberts](https://www.bookquiver.com/jon-roberts), [Evan Wright](https://www.bookquiver.com/evan-wright)
- Publisher: ebury_press
- ISBN: 978-00-9194-941-9
- Pages: 576
- Published: 2018-12-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘ The best crime book since Wiseguy ’ – Rich Cohen A real-life Scarface, Jon was born into the Gambino Mafia family and witnessed his first murder aged seven. He joined a US Army assassination squad in Vietnam to escape a teen criminal charge, then fled New York to reinvent himself in Miami as the number one supplier of cocaine in the US. With a crazed bodyguard always at his side, and a fortress protected by mortars, tear-gas cannons, and a gold-fanged attack dog, Roberts was brutally effective at what he did. With a cast that includes everyone from Jimi Hendrix and OJ Simpson to the CIA and General Noriega, American Desperado is a hedonistic, adrenaline-soaked joyride through the world of Escobar and the cartels, told by one of most successful criminals of all time.