EBOOK

Doctor Dealer

The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire

Mark Bowden
4.8
(18)
Pages
352
Year
2018
Language
English

About

By the early 1980s, Larry Lavin seemed to have everything going for him. He was a bright, charismatic young man who rose from working-class upbringings in a Massachusetts mill town to become a dentist with an Ivy League education and a thriving practice-a beloved father with a well-respected family in one of Philadelphia's most exclusive suburbs.

But behind the façade of his success was a dark secret: Lavin was also the mastermind behind a cocaine empire that spread from Miami to Boston to New Mexico, catering to lawyers, stockbrokers, and other professionals, and generating an annual income of $60 million for the good doctor.

Related Subjects

Reviews

"[Mark Bowden is] master of narrative journalism…"
The New York Times Book Review
"...a shocking American tragedy ... [that] shoots straight from the hip..."
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"An engrossing crime story and a compelling morality tale."
The Arizona Republic

Artists

Similar Artists