Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Audiobook14 hours
Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellin Cartel an Astonishing True Story of Murder Money and International Corruption
Written by Guy Gugliotta and Jeff Leen
Narrated by Paul Woodson
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
This is the story of the most successful cocaine dealers in the world: Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez, Carlos Lehder Rivas and Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha. In the 1980s they controlled more than fifty percent of the cocaine flowing into the United States. The cocaine trade is capitalism on overdrive-supply meeting demand on exponential levels. Here you'll find the story of how the modern cocaine business started and how it turned a ragtag group of hippies and sociopaths into regal kings as they stumbled from small-time suitcase smuggling to levels of unimaginable sophistication and daring. The $2 billion dollar system eventually became so complex that it required the manipulation of world leaders, corruption of revolutionary movements, and the worst kind of violence to protect.
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Reviews for Kings of Cocaine
Rating: 4.328571451428572 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
35 ratings4 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Extremely well researched, detailed and exciting. A great starting point into the Medellín Cartel. Quite cop/one great man centric, but that’s to be expected.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ok book. The narrator pronounces cocaine as Kuh-kayne instead of ko-kayne. This incredibly annoying considering the word cocaine is mentioned about a million times in this story.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great narration. When it comes to audio books, the quality of how the book is read is highly important.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great research and great narration. Very enjoyable reading . 5 Star!!!