American Desperado: My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset Free Audiobook Download by Jon Roberts,Evan Wright
Jon Roberts Evan Wright book is a captivating thriller about how the low-level mafia soldier finds himself on the wrong side of the law. He went from a Chicago boy to Detroit drug kingpin, and then from Mafia soldier to cocaine cowboy to secret government asset. His story starts in Little Italy and moves through Puerto Rico and Havana before ending with Roberts' inevitable capture by the DEA.
Jon Roberts Evan Wright's autobiography is a life story that follows a somewhat turbulent path. Born into a poor family in Brooklyn, NY, Jon was drawn to the criminal world during his childhood. He became an assistant for a shady looking character when he was only 12 years old and began to learn the trade of crime from the inside out. Pushed into becoming an adult at 16, Jon found himself running drugs for a Mexican cartel and quickly caught on to how much money he could make if he continued to work for them. When he turned 18, Jon went legal and opened up one of New York City's most successful nightclubs with his best friend and partner. After a few years of success, however, things took an unwanted turn when both of their
American Desperado is a book about the life of Jon Roberts, former US secret serviceman and drug dealer. The book is written by Evan Wright, and it's told in re-creations from Roberts' perspective. It details how his life went from being a mafia soldier to a cocaine cowboy to an agent for the US government. He changed these jobs because he was ashamed of what he did for a living, but at the end of the day, he had no regrets leaving his life as an underworld figure.
The book, American Desperado: My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset, written by Jon Roberts and narrated by eight different narrators, is about a man who grew up in poverty on the streets of New York City. By the time he was 25 years old, he was one of the most successful cocaine dealers in the country. He also got caught and for 27 years has been incarcerated. Roberts's life as a drug dealer is full of extreme highs and lows.
Author Jon Roberts Evan Wright is an ex-Mafia soldier turned cocaine cowboy. He went on to become a secret government asset and was the United States's most wanted criminal for a time, before he turned informant in 2008 and worked with law enforcement from other countries as well. In American Desperado, Wright shares his life story from his childhood in Brooklyn to being an outsider in the Mafia to being a drug lord, as well as going into detail about what he saw during the war on drugs.
Jon Roberts Evan Wright was born in New York and spent his childhood with his father, a member of the Gambino crime family, who left to join the Mafia in Los Angeles. When his father passed away unexpectedly, Jon's mother took him to live with her parents in Ventura County. Jon enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as an infantryman in Vietnam and later as a military intelligence agent for the CIA. He then began a career as a cocaine cowboy for George Jung, but he turned on his customers, became a DEA informant and later became an FBI informant assigned to infiltrate drug cartels based in Colombia and Mexico.
Published Date | 2011-11-01 |
Duration | 16 hours 41 minutes |
Author | Jon Roberts, Evan Wright |
Narrated | Erik Davies, Mark Bramhall, Kirby Heyborne, Kimberly Farr, Mark Deakins, Thomas Vincent Kelly, Steve Kramer, Johnathan Mcclain, Christina Rooney, Meredith Scott Lynn |
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Abridged | No |
Is It Free? | 30-days Free |
Category | Mystery, Thriller & Horror |
Parent Category | True Crime, Memoir, Law & Politics |