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Dr. Snow: How the FBI Nailed an Ivy League Coke King
This riveting, true-crime adventure lays out the rise and fall of a multimillion-dollar yuppie drug ring run by a dental student and his two classmates. Awash in drugs, sex and money, the college chums built a fifty-kilo-a-month cocaine conglomerate, buying and selling enough white powder to anesthetize thirteen Eastern seaboard states. The kingpin, Larry Lavin, a model husband and father, managed his enterprise like a Fortune 500 business, earning over a milliondollars a year before his 25th birthday. After the FBI cracked the ring and arrested dozens of his operatives, Lavin jumped bail and lived like a rich retiree until two dogged agents tracked him down and sent him to prison for 21 years.
337 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1988
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December 6, 2023
Writing style was different but the story line was so interesting!
January 7, 2024
Story was 4.5 stars, the editing on the kindle version is more like 2 stars lol. Someone needs to fix that mess.
A long read but really fascinating!
A long read but really fascinating!
December 6, 2017
Great complement to "Doctor Dealer" with some overlap, but written from a different angle, for the most part. Glad I read DD first. Crazy story, interesting read. I’m glad there were a few pictures, albeit largely weak ones. I wish there were more.
January 30, 2014
The story itself warrants a five star rating: an ivy-league dentist who leads a secret life as a cocaine dealer.
However, the author showed obvious partiality throughout the book. As a reporter, she is not objective. In addition, she takes a condescending tone with those involved in the ring. In addition, some of the dialogue present in the book is made up by the author. Other than that, this book is excellent.
However, the author showed obvious partiality throughout the book. As a reporter, she is not objective. In addition, she takes a condescending tone with those involved in the ring. In addition, some of the dialogue present in the book is made up by the author. Other than that, this book is excellent.
June 6, 2008
Loved it - knew the one dentist personally growing up. Great Philadelphia story.
June 16, 2008
A fascinating story. Someone I knew was part of the cocaine ring this book describes so it is even more interesting to me.
January 12, 2009
Great true crime book. Amazing how Larry's life reads like a movie script. If you like true crime this is a great book.
August 21, 2013
more like 3.5 stars
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