Item #006257 The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs & Murder. Sally Denton.

The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs & Murder

New York: Doubleday, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Near Fine. Item #006257

Quarter grey cloth, grey paper boards. xviii, 334 pp. Light rubbing to spine foot, fading to lettering of publisher's name. Light bumping to extremities of dust jacket. Near fine overall. Andrew Carter Thornton II had it all - ambition, money, looks, the support of Kentucky's bluegrass aristocracy - and more. On the night of September 11, 1985, when he parachuted from a Cessna 404 and crumpled onto a Tennessee driveway the world learned how much more Drew Thornton really had. Thirty-four football-sized bumdles of cocaine, automatic weapons, a bulging wallet of cash, Krugerrands, rations, vitamins, a compass, an altimeter, an almost empty address book, a membership to the Miami Jockey Club, and two sets of identification were carefully packed in his duffel. His fall represents one of the greatest schisms in the history of American law enforcement, and the story behind it is wilder than fiction.

Price: $80.00

See all items in True Crime
See all items by