Easy Money

by Donald Goddard

The story of George Ramos, a Cuban American who conspired with Frank Matthews to smuggle into the United States a shipment of European heroin worth one hundred million dollars on the streets, sheds light on the enormously lucrative drug business of the black and Hispanic Mafias

Genres: True Crime

365 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1978

Reviews

[Aaron Tebano · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great story.

[Walt · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an interesting read.
It focuses on the black drug gangs in the 1970s. What I found interesting was the way that the gangs tried to model themselves and their activities on the Italian syndicates. At some point, they obviously devolved into petty (albeit well-financed) street gangs. However, their decline is only hinted at in the book.