Evan Wright

Jon Roberts

A mafia insider and former head smuggler for the Medellin cartel describes his violent relationships with criminal powers, his alliance with the U.S. government, and his role in reshaping the nation's war on drugs.

My Life--from Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset

American Desperado

Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason, the media simply doesn't get them. As we all know, news accounts of the last two wars focused almost exclusively on battlefield imagery of high-tech weapons wreaking astounding destruction, comply with analysis from retired army grandees and other experts, punctuated by the odd heart-warming patriotic sound-bite. The troops themselves play a role in the media's presentation of recent wars rather like extras in The Triumph of the Will. They are everywhere yet somehow invisible. When they speak you get the sense that what they are saying has been carefully scripted. Now Generation Kill tells the soldiers' story in their own words. The narrative focuses on a platoon of 23 marines, many of them veterans of Afghanistan, whose elite reconnaissance unit spearheaded the blitzkrieg on Iraq. This is the story of young men that have been trained to become ruthless killers. It's about surviving death. It's about taking part in a war many questioned before it even began. Evan Wright was the only reporter with First Recon, which operated well ahead of most other forces, usually behind enemy lines. They were among the first marines sent into the fight and one of the last units still engaged on the outskirts of Iraq, even after the city centre fell. Generation Kill is not just a combat chronicle but an inside look at how people fighting in war actually experience it. It is both an action narrative like Black Hawk Down and a detailed portrait of a generation at war along the lines of Band of Brothers. It is not a book you are going to forget in a hurry...

Generation Kill

Bad Therapist

How to Get Away with Murder in America

Read Evan Wright's posts on the Penguin Blog. The New York Times bestselling author of Generation Kill immerses himself in even more cultures on the edge. Evan Wright's affinity for outsiders has inspired this deeply personal journey through what he calls "the lost tribes of America." A collection of previously published pieces, Hella Nation delivers provocative accounts of sex workers in Porn Valley, a Hollywood über-agent-turned-war documentarian and hero of America's far right, runaway teens earning corporate dollars as skateboard pitchmen, radical anarchists plotting the overthrow of corporate America, and young American troops on the hunt for terrorists in the combat zones of the Middle East

Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe,Wingnut's War Against the Gap, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America

Hella Nation

Hella Nation charts Wright's deeply personal journey, from his stark but sympathetic portrayals of sex workers in Porn Valley to his raw portrait of a Hollywood �ber-agent turned war documentarian and hero of America's far right. Along the way he meets runaway teens in Hollywood earning corporate dollars as skateboard pitchmen, radical anarchists plotting the overthrow of capitalism from tree-sits in the Oregon rainforest and young American troops on the hunt for terrorists in the combat zones of the Middle East. His subjects are people for whom The American Dream is either just out of grasp, or something they have chosen to reject altogether. Sometimes frightening, usually profane, and often darkly comic, Hella Nation is Wright's meticulously observed tour of the jagged edges of all those other Americas hiding in plain sight.

In Search of the Lost Tribes of America

Prawdziwy gangster to prawdopodobnie najlepsza, najbardziej szokująca i mroczna oraz wypełniona adrenaliną autobiografia, jaka się ukazała w tym stuleciu. Prawdziwy gangster to wyprawa w głąb prawdziwego jądra ciemności. Prawdziwy gangster to spowiedź kokainowego kowboja JONA ROBERTSA, który w pewnym momencie był jedną z najpotężniejszych osób w USA.

Prawdziwy gangster. Moje życie: od żołnierza mafii do kokainowego kowboja i tajnego współpracownika władz

Jon Roberts werd geboren als de telg van een Godfatherachtige maffiafamilie en was al op zijn zevende getuige van zijn eerste moord. Als jeugddelinquent en bendelid krikte hij de misdaadcijfers in New York flink op. Om een lange gevangenisstraf te ontlopen ging hij naar Vietnam, waar hij als lid van een elite-eenheid gerichte moorden uitvoerde. Later boekte hij in New York successen als promotor van nachtclubs. Toen de grond hem te heet onder de voeten werd, vluchtte hij naar de zon van Miami, waar hij logistieke zaken ging regelen voor het Medellín-kartel. Hij werkte voor de legendarische Pablo Escobar en was medeverantwoordelijk voor een aantal ingenieuze smokkelpraktijken. In zijn met traangas en mortieren beschermde stadsfort was ‘de Bebaarde Gringo’ nagenoeg onaantastbaar voor vijanden en voor de politie. Zijn leven nam een bizarre wending toen ook hooggeplaatste politici en de CIA gebruik gingen maken van zijn talent om zaakjes voor elkaar te krijgen.

American desperado

Imagine if your life were an art museum. Your family life could be a warm portrait, your sense of humor an abstract sculpture. Now think about your finances. What type of portrait or picture manifests when you think about the role that money plays in your life? We all will have a different picture come to mind when we think about money. Some of us may be able to come up with masterful pieces that could rival even the most intricate Monet paintings. We might be sitting in a luxurious house with anything we want, various investments that add splashes of exotic color, and a full bank account that puts a lot of green onto our painting. Others could see paintings that contain only a few colors, but plenty of red. Letters stamped with past due or late fee in crimson could create a hue on our financial portrait that is only rivaled by the red we see when we feel anger, anger over past mistakes or poor financial decisions. Still others may have a simpler picture. Our finances could consist of nothing more than a child like picture scrawled in crayon. This could be only a very early draft of what our long term finances can look like. I want to help you bring some bold, new pieces into your financial life. Some masterpieces can take years to complete, but it will be worth it to see something similar to the Sistine Chapel where a hollowed out building used to be. I have a palette full of tools that you can use in order to create your own individual financial masterpiece. A wallet that is fully under your control will be a brush that you can use for delicate strokes. Exercising self control will be the chisel that allows you to turn a block of money into a sculpture of financial success. When you discover the most involved and advanced money saving tactics from this palette, you will be able to add splashes of color to bring your financial world to life. It doesn't matter what your past financial life has looked like. It could be marred with a dark and grim portrait, filled with strife and grief. You might have something that could be a masterpiece, but it just needs a little extra something. From the moment you turn this page I am giving you a clean slate, a new canvas. I will give you the artist's tools, piece by piece. By the time you are finished you will not have something that I have created. You will be looking at your own self-created financial masterpiece. Clear out any old ideas and put them into storage, it is time to craft a brand new centerpiece for your financial life, and it starts now...

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