Kingpin Author:Burt Hirschfeld, Edwin Fadiman Kingpin is about power, and about two men whose lives become fatally intertwined. One has the power to conquer a town, a nation, eventually half a world; the other must find the power to stop him. — Napoleon Cruz is an elusive, ruthless kingpin in the cocaine trade, a man whose passions are as obsessive as his ambitions, and whose ambitions are a... more »s grand as those of his namesake.
Jack Keveny is a New York City Detective asked to join as elite Federal team charged with stopping Cruz, whose operations have become the main supply-line of cocaine into the United States.
Between the two men comes a beautifully exotic woman, mistress to one, enchantress to the other. The menage a tros that ensues creates one of the most powerful novels of international double-dealing, conspiracy, murder and passion to evolve in years, with a climax that is as surprising as it is shocking.« less