American Desperado

<p><b>&#145;</b><b>The best crime book since <i>Wiseguy</i></b><b>&#146; &#150; Rich Cohen</b><br><br>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. <br><br>With a cast that includes everyone from Jimi Hendrix and OJ Simpson to the CIA and General Noriega <i>American Desperado</i> is a hedonistic adrenaline-soaked joyride through the world of Escobar and the cartels told by one of most successful criminals of all time.</p>