- Published: 1 November 2011
- ISBN: 9781448116010
- Imprint: Ebury Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 576
American Desperado
My life as a Cocaine Cowboy
- Published: 1 November 2011
- ISBN: 9781448116010
- Imprint: Ebury Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 576
An American criminal mastermind
Ed Caesar, Sunday Times
A spellbinding narrative of drugs, death and debauchery as told by one of America's most notorious criminals... A savage, unrelenting tale
Kirkus Reviews
A tour de force. The best crime book since Wiseguy. Puts you in the middle of a world where it's wonderful to be a tourist, terrible to be a resident. I am filled with nothing but admiration and envy for Evan Wright
Rich Cohen, author of THE FISH THAT ATE THE WHALE
Imagine if Mister Kurtz from Heart of Darkness sat down with Dick Cavett for a little chat about the nature of good and evil, empathy, fatherhood, violence, drugs, power, self-knowledge, women, family, the hero versus the anti-hero, freedom, imprisonment...Try as you might, you can't really put this book down
Doug Stanton, author of HORSE SOLDIERS and IN HARM’S WAY
Seldom have I read an account of criminal enterprise that took me so deeply into the blackness of a man’s soul – a scary read, pounding and relentless and irresistible
Bruce Porter, author of BLOW
American Desperado is the first great crime book of the 21st Century. Dangerous, darkly hilarious, hair-raising, and terrifically written, Wright's prose spills over with the kind of insane, brilliantly rendered detail and dialogue that make you want to call people at four in the morning and read out loud
Jerry Stahl, bestselling author of PERMANENT MIDNIGHT