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From the # 1 New York Times�bestselling author of Black Hawk Down: The �shocking� story of the country�s unlikeliest drug kingpin (The Baltimore Sun). 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 fa�ade 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� (The 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) �Bowden has emerged as one of our best writers of muscular nonfiction.� �The Denver Post