Mark Bowden Doctor Dealer

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From the # 1 New York Timesbestselling author of Black Hawk Down: The ';shocking' story of the country's unlikeliest drug kingpin (The Baltimore Sun). By the early 1980s, Larry Lavin had everything going for him. He was a bright, charismatic young man who rose from working-class roots to become a dentist with an Ivy League education and a thriving practice, and a beloved father with a well-respected family in one of Philadelphia's most exclusive suburbs. But behind the faade 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. Now, Mark Bowden, a ';master of narrative journalism' (The New York Times Book Review) tells the harrowing saga of Lavin's rise and fall in ';a shocking American tragedy... [that] shoots straight from the hip' (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). ';An engrossing crime story and a compelling morality tale.' The Arizona Republic ';Has all the elements of a chilling suspense thriller... A smoothly crafted, exciting, can't-put-it-down book.' The New Voice (Louisville)