Inside the Cocaine Cartel

by Richard Smitten

Here is the incredible, true story of a boy from Brooklyn who married a Colombian girl and soon found himself in the inner sanctum of the world's most powerful and deadly drug lords. Max Mermelstein... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156171254X
• ISBN13: 9781561712540
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: S.P.I. Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

The Real American Cartel Expert:

The best review could not express the importance and truth about what this book documents. Simply put Max Mermelstein was the highest ranking NON South American cartel member in the history of the cartel. George Jung was a minor player a blip on the map but because of Hollywood's revisionist history, the public was led to believe George was our Pablo: not true ! This book highlights, demonstrates, and supports how Max Mermelstein became the biggest-baddest American cocaine smuggler of alltime. . . You can go with the "Hollywood" version, "Blow", or you can read the FACTS ! Max was an American original. . .

I recommend this book to everyone, especially our CEO's

Max Mermelstein approaches this story as though he's a kid who managed to sneak into an R-rated movie, and now he has to tell all the other kids about it. This book was worth the money, although at times it's rather blandly eloquated and leaves you wishing he had a better way with words. The magnitude of what he was involved with more than makes up for that, though. It's a great read even for those not interested in the drug trade, especially if you have a mind for business. It's such a different perspective on money-making schemes compared to something you'd read in a business mag, but is definitely enlightening for that very reason. That morality inversely equates with revenue is a common theme throughout the book.

INSIDE THE COCAINE CARTEL.

EXCELLENT READ. THE STORY IS VERY WELL TOLD AND GRIPS THE READER FROM START TO FINISH . WELL WORTH THE INVESTMENT...

"The Colombian Goodfellas"

"WoW" This book was an instant addiction!! Mr Mermelstein where ever you are...God Bless You!! I wish I could write you.Why this is not a movie, I'll never guess, maybe it's being worked on... I would only pray... Much better than blow...Inside the Cocaine Cartel is an amazing true story of man and an empire, that he helped build. A colombian cartel expose written by a jewish man from brooklyn...

An absorbing and gritty story from page 1.

This is one of those relatively rare true-life dramas that reads a lot like fiction without any loss to the quality of the storyline. If you have the stomach to learn the "down-and-dirty" of the chaotic and bloody underworld of narcotics, you will probably find this book one of the very best reads at your disposal. This story is definitely not the Godfather. There is no attempt to glorify the characters - just a straightforward description of characters as the author experienced them. The cast is mostly a ragtag (but filthy rich) bunch of ever-changing drug smugglers (both Colombian and American) whose methods and personalities could be called comic at times, brutal at others, but always real. The book jacket describes it all, and the book delivers. This is the first book in a long time that's kept me up late at night reading.