American Desperado: My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset

American Desperado In 2008, veteran journalist Wright began a series of conversations with super-criminal Roberts. Those conversations would last three years, during which time Wright came to realize that Roberts was much more than the de-facto "transportation chief" of the Medellin Cartel during the 1980s--and much more than a facilitator of a national drug epidemic.