─Rich Cohen, New York Times bestselling co-author of WHEN I STOP TALKING YOU'LL KNOW I'M DEAD, and author of TOUGH JEWS I am filled with nothing but admiration and envy for Evan Wright." Puts you in the middle of a world where it's wonderful to be a tourist, terrible to be a resident. ─Doug Stanton, New York Times bestselling author of HORSE SOLDIERS and IN HARM'S WAY Try as you might, you can't really put this book down." " 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. "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."
─Steven Gaines, New York Times bestselling author of PHILISTINES AT THE HEDGEROW and FOOL'S PARADISE I never want to be in the same room with Jon Roberts, but I couldn't stop reading his book." "AMERICAN DESPERADO is one of the most disturbing memoirs I've ever read.Evan Wright does a brilliant job getting into Roberts' scary head. ─Jerry Stahl, New York Times bestselling author of PERMANENT MIDNIGHT 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." " American Desperado is the first great crime book of the 21st Century. ─Chuck Hogan, New York Times bestselling author of PRINCE OF THIEVES (basis of the Academy Award-nominated "The Town") "AMERICAN DESPERADO is not only stranger but so much better than fiction.Captivating, addictive, and head-spinning, this one-of-a-kind book earns its place on the top shelf of true crime accounts." Swanson, Edgar Award winning author of the New York Times bestsellers MANHUNT and BLOODY CRIMES "Delivers all the guilty pleasures one expects from a gangster's memoir, but Wright's superb prose offers something more: a meditation on good and evil during the glittering decay of late 20th century civilization. ─David Lipsky, author of the national bestseller ABSOLUTELY AMERICAN Evan Wright puts you so deep inside a career in organized crime that midway through you'll begin expecting a knock on your door and a call from your lawyer." "The Moby Dick of mob memoirs.here is everything you've wanted to know-and much better, here is the way everything felt. "A spellbinding narrative of drugs, death and debauchery as told by one of America's most notorious criminals.A savage, unrelenting tale."
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