The Cocaine Wars

It is the world's most valuable commodity. It is a business bigger than the Ford Motor Company. It is cocaine, and a single, ruthless, savagely sophisticated entity controls the empire: the Colombian Cartel. For two and a half years, the authors lived on the front lines of this story, and they provide an astonishing, disturbing inside look at the Cartel and its operators:the millionaires and enforcers, the smugglers and informers.

THE COCAINE WARS takes us from the jungles of South America where the coca is grown to the streets of Miami where drug money has corrupted at least one in every ten cops. With unlimited wealth and power at stake, whole governments can be bought and sold, and almost every man has his price.

THE COCAINE WARS is investigative reporting that reads like a crime thriller but has the shocking impact of today's headlines. For the first time, here is the full story of the war now being waged - and lost - on the streets all across America.