<p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Griselda Blanco</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">&nbsp;was not just another&nbsp;</span><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">drug trafficker</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">-she was a pioneer of the cocaine trade, a key architect of the</span><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">&nbsp;Miami underworld</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">, and one of the most dangerous figures in organized crime history. Her story is one of ambition, violence, and ultimate downfall, from her humble beginnings in Colombia to her rise as the&nbsp;</span><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">"Cocaine Godmother"</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">&nbsp;and her dominance of the U.S. drug market in the 1970s and '80s. Blanco revolutionized the drug trade, pioneering smuggling routes, ordering brutal assassinations, and amassing a fortune that rivaled the most infamous crime lords.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">This book takes you deep into Blanco's world-the birth of the&nbsp;</span><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Miami drug wars</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">, the era of the&nbsp;</span><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">"Cocaine Cowboys,"</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">&nbsp;and the violent reign that made her one of the&nbsp;</span><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">DEA's most wanted criminals</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">. But power comes at a cost, and as the law closed in, the Queen of the Cartel faced the inevitable downfall that all criminal empires must confront.</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Based on true events</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">, Griselda Blanco: Cocaine Godmother is the definitive account of a woman who defied the odds, dominated a male-dominated underworld, and left behind a legacy of crime, wealth, and terror.</span></p>