Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade

"One of the first books about the cocaine trade and it is still among the best." --Norman Mailer

"A flat-out ballbuster. It moves like a threshing machine with a fuel tank full of ether. . . . Sabbag is a whip-song writer." --Hunter S. Thompson

"One of the best books about drugs ever written." --Robert Stone

"One of the most dazzling and spectacular pieces of reporting I have ever read." --Nora Ephron

"An extremely rare cut of dry wit, poetry, rock-hard fact and relentless insight." --Rolling Stone

"A triumphant piece of reporting." --The New Yorker

"A witty, intelligent, fiercely stylish, drug-induced exemplary tale." --Los Angeles Times

"The ultimate slide down the precipice of hip." --Susan Brownmiller

"A classic." --The National Review

"After reading Robert Sabbag's Snowblind, one is overcome with a sense of having finally understood America. It is that rare kind of book that compels a reader to call up all of his friends and read passages to them over the telephone. It is destined to become an American classic." --Claude Brown, Jr.

"A beautifully written book." --Rita Mae Brown

"The most authentic story of the big-time cocaine trade that has hit print, and Sabbag tells it with novelistic razzle-dazzle, setting down knife-sharp scenes as the action moves: Mexico, New York's big hotels, Harlem streets, Bogota's high and low-life . . . scenes and characters that make your skin crawl. A compelling read." --Publishers Weekly

"It's excellent . . . characters leaping to life right out of Hemingway and Damon Runyon, and everywhere, supercharging, that fine electric dust of Cordilleran snow. I hate to think of what Sabbag must have gone through to write it." --Richard Rhodes

"An immensely entertaining book." --Newsweek

"Alternately scary and funny, wherein an incident or an insight is compressed and polished to an impressive sheen." --Baltimore Sun

"This is a glorious and glittering piece of craftsmanship--like good surgical steel . . . an exciting, living story--beautifully told, addictively readable, and as urgent as a siren coming to a sinister stop in front of where we all live." --Davis Grubb

"Fascinating." --Houston Chronicle

"Rip-roaring . . . a marvelous, cheerful adventure of modern times."--Washington Star

"It's a challenge to put the book down." --Florida Times-Union

"The style is charged with energy." --Boston Phoenix

"Robert Sabbag is one beautiful writer." --Nashville Banner

"An impeccably researched, carefully written book that reads at times like an adventure story." --Worcester Telegram

"A meticulous study . . . fascinating." --Library Journal

"Hip and often very funny . . . provocative . . . and utterly convincing." --Miami Herald