Ebook: Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellin Cartel - An Astonishing True Story of Murder, Money and International Corruption

1. DADELAND -- 2. The New Breed -- 3. THE DREAM OF DANBURY -- 4. THE BAHAMAS PIPELINE -- 5. THE KING OF COCAINE TRANSPORTATION -- 6. MIAMI 1982 -- 7. JOHNNY PHELPS -- 8. THE CARTEL'S GOLDEN AGE -- 9. MAS -- 10. THE COLONEL AND THE AMBASSADOR -- 11. HOT MONEY -- 12. THE ETHER TRAIL -- 13. TRANQUILANDIA -- 14. THE WHITE MERCEDES -- 15. BARRY SEAL -- 16. THE NICARAGUA DEAL -- 17. CRACKDOWN -- 18. Drawdown -- 19. THE AUDIENCIA -- 20. UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU -- MAX -- 22. FLIPPING -- 23. "THIS IS DOUBLE-CROSS" -- 24. THE HALFWAY HOUSE -- 25. PALACE OF JUSTICE -- 26. BETANCUR AT TWILIGHT -- THE RAMIREZ CONTRACT -- 28. THE CARTEL INDICTMENT -- 29. THE VIRGIN SMILES -- 30. "WITNESSES FROM HELL" -- 31. THE FINAL OFFENSIVE -- 32. CITIZEN JORGE LUIS OCHOA -- 33. THE HENRY FORD OF COCAINE -- 34. NATIONAL SECURITY -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- SEARCH TERMS.;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 rag tag 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.