Snowblind is the true story of Zachary Swan, an American smuggler, whose intricate and ingenious scams made him one of the most revered and legendary figures in the cocaine world of the late Sixties and Seventies. For a few breathless years he ran rings around the police and customs officials.
From New York to Colombia, Swan enthusiastically plied his trade. 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 over-the-shoulder paranoia are captured brilliantly.
The result is one of the funniest and most illuminating books about drugs ever written ... a genuine underground classic.
This new edition is published as a companion to Robert Sabbag's blockbusting new book on pioneer marijuana smuggler Alan Long, Smokescreen, and comes with a specially commissioned introduction by another legendary smuggler: Howard Marks, aka Mr Nice.
- ISBN10 1841952257
- ISBN13 9781841952253
- Publish Date 2 February 2002 (first published 1 May 1976)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 May 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Canongate Books
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English