Jeff Leen: 2 books
The Queen of the Ring
Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American Legend
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
The story of Mildred Burke, the longest reigning champion of female wrestling, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Kings of Cocaine.
In this in-depth account, journalist Jeff Leen pulls back the curtain on a forgotten era when a petite midwesterner used her beauty and brawn...
Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellín Cartel - An Astonishing True Story of Murder, Money and International Corruption
Inside the Medellín Cartel - An Astonishing True Story of Murder, Money and International Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
This is the story of the most successful cocaine dealers in the world: Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez, Carlos Lehder Rivas and Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha. In the 1980s they controlled more than fifty percent of the cocaine flowing into the United States. The cocaine trade is capitalism...