-T.J. English hits the bullseye again. This is true crime writing at its most gripping and immediate - a riveting epic about crooked cops, lawyers, prosecutors, judges, and politicians who corrupted a continent and got snow to flow out of the tropics. The Last Kilo is a revelation.- -Nicholas Pileggi, author of Goodfellas and CasinoFrom true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of -Los Muchachos,- one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history-a story of glitz, glamour, and organized crime set against 1980-s Miami. Despite what Scarface might lead one to believe, violence was not the dominant characteristic of the cocaine business. It was corruption: the dirty cops, agents, lawyers, judges, and politicians who made the drug world go round. And no one managed that carousel of dangerous players better than Willy Falcon. A Cuban exile whose family escaped Fidel Castro-s Cuba when he was eleven years old, Falcon, as a teenager, beca
