The true story of super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the documentary Cocaine Cowboys.

American Desperado is definitely Roberts’ no-holds-barred account to be created into Mafia royalty, witnessing his initial murder at the age of seven, becoming a hunter-assassin in Vietnam, time for NY to become–at age 22–one of the city’s leading nightclub impresarios, then journeying to Miami where in a few brief years he’d rise to be the Medellin Cartel’s most reliable smuggler.

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But that’s simply half the story.

The roster of Roberts’ friends and acquaintances reads such as a Who’s Who from the last mentioned half from the 20th century and includes everyone from Jimi Hendrix, Richard Pryor, and O.J. Simpson to Carlo Gambino, Meyer Lansky, and Manuel Noriega.

Nothing at all if not colorful, Roberts encircled himself with beautiful ladies, drove his souped-up road car at a high quickness of 180 mls per hour, shared his bed using a 200-pound cougar, and employed a 6”6” professional wrestler called “FINISHED .” as his bodyguard. Ultimately, Roberts became so effective that he drawn the attention of the Republican Party’s leadership, was wooed by them, and even was co-opted from the CIA for which he carried out its secret agenda.

Scrupulously documented and relentlessly propulsive, this collaboration between a bloodhound journalist and probably one of the most audacious criminals ever is similar to no other crime book you’ve ever read.