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Born in 1949, Carlos Lehder rose from a struggling, small time pot dealer to become a major godfather in the Medellin cartel, the crime syndicate largely responsible for initiating the cocaine epidemic plaguing American society since the late 1970s. Federal U.S. prosecutor Robert Merkle, who successfully prosecuted Lehder in 1988, said that the drug lord was to cocaine transportation what Henry Ford was to automobiles because he was the mastermind behind the transportation network that revolutionized the international drug trade. Lehder's genius was to devise a sophisticated transportation system that allowed the Medellin cartel to transport huge quantities of cocaine from Colombia, the source country, to the U.S., the world's major illegal drug market. By 1987, the DEA and the Colombian government had put Lehder's net wealth at more than $3 billion. A great admirer of both Nazi icon Adolph Hitler and Marxist Che Guevara, Lehder hated the U.S. and viewed cocaine as a kind of atomic bomb that could destroy Uncle Sam from within. Lehder got the nickname, Crazy Charlie, because of his bizarre and often unpredictable behavior.

Once again, Ron Chepesiuk opens up the world of gangsters to his readers in a style that is rich both in historical facts and entertainment. Crazy Charlie is a book not to be missed by either the casual reader or the aficionado of the Prohibition era.

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Ron Chepesiuk, a Rock Hill, SC-based award-winning author of more than 33 books and 4,000 plus articled, is a Fulbright Scholar, documentary producer and director, screenwriter, the radio host of the Crime Beat radio show, a consultant to the History Channel s Gangland TV series and a regular interviewee on U.S. cable TV crime shows. Three of his books have been optioned for movies and the Discovery Channel has licensed his documentary, the Frank Matthews Story.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Strategic Media Books (January 15, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 175 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1939521386
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1939521385
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.6 x 8.9 inches

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Ron was a university professor before getting the writing bug. Now he is an award-winning author, two-time Fulbright Scholar recipient to Indonesia and Bangladesh, an adjunct instructor in UCLA's Extension Journalism program and a consultant to the History Channel's "Gangland" documentary series. Ron is the author of twenty-four books and more than 4,000 magazine, newspaper and Internet articles on a wide range of topics, from science to entertainment. His celebrity interviews include Yasser Arafat, Jimmy Carter, Abbie Hoffman, Noam Chomsky, Evander Holyfield, Andy McDowall, and many others. He has been interviewed by the History Channel, Biography Channel, Investigative Discovery, Black Entertainment Television and NBC Dateline and other media.

Among other awards, two of his books, Drugs Lords and Gangsters of Harlem, were selected finalists for Foreword magazine's 2007 True Crime Book of the Year. Gangsters Harlem won honorable mention. A third book, Black Gangsters of Chicago won a silver medal in the Independent Book Publishers Association's 2007 True Crime Book of the Year. Black Gangsters of Chicago also won first place in the African American nonfiction category of the U.S. Book News "Best Books 2007" award. Both "Black Gangsters of Chicago and Gangsters of Harlem were finalists for the award in the true crime category and Drug Lords won honorable mention in the general nonfiction category of the 2008 London Book Festival, while Black Gangsters of Chicago won honorable mention in the 2008 New England Book Festival. Black Gangsters of Chicago also won first place in African American nonfiction category of the 2009 National Indie Excellence Award. Gangsters of Harlem won the award in the True Crime category.

A native of Thunder Bay, Canada, Ron resides in South Carolina when not on assignment around the world. He hopes someday to write an award-winning screenplay based on one of his books.

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RalphE's wife here - This entire topic and it's people are interesting. This book looks like a young person's slap-dash amalgamation to complete a course. There are no footnotes. In the back there is an extensive bibliography, but I wonder if the author had actually read the items there listed. The print of the book is VERY BIG. The information appears as though it is lifted from various sources, just put in the author's own words - the reason I say this is that the information should flow more smoothly. Sometimes a character who was introduced a while ago is mentioned a bit later, and if a person needs a refresher in knowing where he fits in he should not use the index. Entries of people in the index are usually alphabetical by FIRST name, and they are often not mentioned on the pages they reference, nor anywhere near them.

It is a book put together in a quick manner, which is a shame as I really would have liked to have kept it for reference as it does contain many facts. It's of no use if you can not easily look them up later.

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