"American Desperado" is possibly the most jaw-dropping, event-filled, adrenaline-soaked criminal autobiography ever written. Like a real-life Scarface Jon was born into the upper levels of the Gambino crime family and witnessed his first murder at age seven. He became a one-man juvenile crime wave b[...]

In 2008 veteran journalist Evan Wright, acclaimed for his "New York Times "bestselling book "Generation Kill "and co-writer of the Emmy-winning HBO series it spawned," " began a series of conversations with super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the fabulously successful documentary "Cocaine Cowboys. "[...]