![]() ![]() He eventually formed a clandestine alliance with the US government and in the end found personal late-life redemption. ![]() Dangerous, darkly hilarious, hair-raising, and terrifically written, Wright's prose spills over with the kind of insane, brilliantly rendered detail and dialogue that make you want to call people at four in the morning and read out loud. used books, rare books and new books American Desperado: My Life-From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset: ISBN 9780307450425 (978-0. To United States senators and CIA officials, he was "the guy who can get things done". American Desperado is the first great crime book of the 21st Century. To law enforcement, he was known as the "Bearded Gringo," a spectre they could never touch. With a hulking 6'6" bodyguard always at his side, and a rural fortress protected by mortars, tear-gas cannons, and a gold-fanged attack dog, Roberts was brutally effective at what he did. He returned to New York at age 20 to become one of the city's top nightclub promoters, then journeyed to Miami where he became the de facto transportation chief of the Medellin Cartel, and along with a tech-wizard partner, created some of the most sophisticated smuggling technologies ever. He became a one-man juvenile crime wave before joining an assassination squad in Vietnam. ![]() Like a real-life Scarface Jon was born into the upper levels of the Gambino crime family and witnessed his first murder at age seven. American Desperado is possibly the most jaw-dropping, event-filled, adrenaline-soaked criminal autobiography ever written. ![]()
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