Snowblind

by Robert Sabbag

Published 1 May 1976
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.

Stone Cowboy

by Mark Jacobs

Published 1 September 1997

Beam Me Up, Scotty

by Michael Guinzburg

Published 23 June 1993
Scotty" (crack) has had its way with Ed, but he finds his way back through the message of Hard Drugs Anonymous, taking their Twelve Steps to the streets of the East Village and dealing salvation in lethal doses. Like Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, an addictive read.