Snowblind A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade

by Sabbag, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780802144942
• ISBN10: 0802144942
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-08
• Publisher: Grove Press

Summary

In 1970s New York, Zachary Swan was a legend. Born at the peak of the Jazz Age with a silver spoon in his mouth, he ended up with that same spoon in his nose when he turned his talents to cocaine smuggling. In Snowblind, a rip-roaring modern classic, Robert Sabbag details Swan's rise, his ingenious and ever more baroque plans to outwit government agents, and the rapid end to his Roman-candle career. A captivating story of a dashing antihero, Snowblind is also a striking portrait of a turbulent age. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Robert Sabbag is also the best-selling author of Smokescreen, Too Tough to Die, and a memoir, Down Around Midnight.

Table of Contents

Breakaway
Indian Summer	p. 3
Talking to Boswell	p. 22
Brownsville Breakdown	p. 45
After Math	p. 62
Aesthetics and Anaesthetics	p. 78
Going South
A Rainy Day in Santa Marta	p. 97
A Way with the Spoon	p. 117
Snowbound in Carthage	p. 135
The Carpenter Said Nothing but…	p. 150
Alkaloid Annie/Power of the Press	p. 174
Horse Latitudes	p. 182
Why did you Write my Name in the Snow?	p. 196
Running Blind
Back to the Border	p. 223
Journey of the Magi	p. 241
Blues in the Bottle	p. 260
The Hawk and the Hired Man	p. 273
After the Fox	p. 289
Epilogue
New York	p. 305
South America	p. 308
Appendices
Quaaludes	p. 313
Credit Cards and Traveler's Checks	p. 316
Mexican Brown	p. 319
Speed	p. 320
Marijuana Abroad	p. 325
A Swan Lexicon	p. 326
Columbia and Big Business	p. 327
Airline Security	p. 329
Day of Judgment	p. 330
Author's Note	p. 331
Afterword	p. 335
Index	p. 345
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