Cocaine Confidential: True Stories Behind the World's Most Notorious Narcotic

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Cocaine is the world's most notorious narcotic. It underpins a vast, multi-billion pound underworld with a dark and deadly side. But who really are the shadowy people behind this chilling network? The coca farmers, the jungle sweat-shop workers, the smugglers, the suppliers, and, ultimately, the dealers who provide for the world's hundreds of millions of users. COCAINE CONFIDENTIAL goes inside the lives of all these characters to reveal their stories for the first time. Along the way you'll meet hitmen, pimps, desperate former international footballers, coke barons, mules, hardened traffickers and corrupt cops as the truth is unravelled in a roller coaster ride through this secret world.

Wensley Clarkson has written numerous true crime books, including biographies of Brink's-Mat defendant Kenneth Noye, ex-Great Train Robber Charlie Wilson, and legendary south London criminal Jimmy Moody. The Noye book was one of the ten bestselling true crime titles of the 1990s, and in total Wensley has sold over one million books worldwide.

Bestselling investigative journalist Wensley Clarkson has seemingly penetrated the inner sanctum of Noye's closest so called criminal associates, to paint a chilling portrait of a brilliant master criminal - News of the World