When it was first published in the mid-seventies, Snow Blind emerged as an essential part of the criminal literature. He described as "extraordinary story" (The New Yorker), is a feverish, frenzied and classic look to the cocaine business through the eyes of legendary smuggler Zachary Swan.

In his brief and brilliant career developed in the sixties, Swan provided an elegant clientele. This moved between Bogota and New York nightclubs and devised ingenious ways to circumvent federal tricks. While creating distraction maneuvers genuinely baroque, surviving by their wits and fortune, he found on the road a dangerous world and runaway Robert Sabbag evokes with extraordinary strength and humor. This fascinating story is a riotous firsthand view of a town torn by demented and paranoid underworld. The result is an enlightening book that wild influenced a generation of writers and traffickers.