About the book: year / The real story about the formation of the Medellin cartel and its leaders. It was these people who controlled half of the cocaine entering the United States in the 1980s. The authors have a deep understanding of the subject, they know first-hand how the modern cocaine business was born and how motley hippies and sociopaths who traded in petty smuggling turned into the kings of the criminal world. The criminal network, which brought its owners an income of $2 billion a year, eventually became so huge that to protect it it was necessary to manipulate world leaders, bribe the governments of entire countries and carry out brutal reprisals against intractable crime fighters. Certain episodes of this story formed the basis of the films “Cocaine "with Johnny Depp and "Made in America" ​​with Tom Cruise, as well as the popular series "Narcos" and the series "Griselda».