Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade

by Robert Sabbag

Book Overview

Called "a triumphant piece of reporting" (The New Yorker), Snowblind is an all-out, nonstop, and now classic look at the cocaine trade through the eyes of smuggler Zachary Swan. In a brief... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802135897
• ISBN13: 9780802135896
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

snow blind

This is one of the best books ever written about drug smuggling. Double crosses are the norm with ingenious smuggling scams. Sometimes written tongue in cheek the book details many ways and means to import drugs into the country. Although these ways and means are out of date today they nonetheless capture the spirit and ingenuity of drug smugglers.

Snowblind

Snowblind is the story of legendary cocaine smuggler, Zachary Swan, whose exploits and scams in the sixties and early seventies ran rings around police and custom officals alike. Robert Sabbag's riveting account of Swan's brief career provides a compulsive insight into the cocaine underworld in which all the double-dealing crazy characters and paranoia are captured brilliantly. The result is one of the funniest and most illuminating books about the drug trade ever written - a genuine underground classic. --- from book's back cover

Drug runners have never looked this good.

This novel starts off at a blistering pace and doesn't slack off. This is a must read, and should be required in schools to educate the youths of today on what goes on in the real world.

A must read. A brilliant look into the drug trade.

Snowblind begins with the Zackary Swan, the protaganist, telling his lawyer that even though cops found an ounce of coke, "they didn't find my stash." From this point on the book is a non-stop roller coaster ride into the life of Zack, the "every-man"cocaine smuggler/dealer. Sabbag's prose washes over the reader like a wave of intensity. Zackary's explosive story is the perfect mate to ride that wave into the reader's mind and psyche, making Snowblind linger in the one's memory long after he or she puts the book down. What I truly loved is the fact that Zack is not your stereotypical drug dealer- he is a smart, interesting character with a memory for details that will astound the reader. Sabbag successfully puts to rest the prejudice that all drug dealers are moronic scums. This should be a must read for both DEA agents and drug kingpins. Snowblind reads as a how-to book on drug smuggling. Zack's smuggling methods are as brilliant as they are simple. Sabbag's reverent wit in the telling of these methods makes this one of the best and most insightful books ever written on the narcotics trade. Snowblind is a brilliant book that I recommend for everyone.

"Intense, non-stop and full of action: a must-read

A great book that pulls you into the high-stakes world of cocaine smuggling. Plenty of wild characters, intense situations and high-speed drama. I could not put it down--the second time, even.