Doctor Dealer - Hardcover

Bowden, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0446513822 ISBN 13: 9780446513821

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 1987

Synopsis

Chronicles the career of Larry Lavin, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry who moved into Philadelphia's affluent Main Line supported by his activities as a cocaine dealer

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From Publishers Weekly:

A most unlikely drug kingpin, Dr. Larry Lavin was a Philadelphia dentist at the time of his arrest and subsequent sentencing to a 42-year prison term. But Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Bowden has done an exceptional job of showing how family background and the yuppie culture of the '70s and '80s combined to produce one of the East Coast's biggest cocaine dealers. The son of a man who had once been well-to-do but continued to try to maintain an upper-class lifestyle on a lower-middle-class income, Lavin was a brilliant scholarship student at Phillips Exeter, but was expelled for drug use. Accepted to the University of Pennsylvania, he became the biggest marijuana dealer on campus, at a time when more than half the students, Bowden estimates, were using pot. Then came cocaine and profits ranging into the millions, with an organization that involved dozens of people. Eventually, however, Lavin's flamboyant spending led authorities to suspect him. A notable, in-depth look at a figure who, even after his apprehension, was able to rationalize his criminality on the grounds that he was only supplying a demand.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0446513822
• ISBN 13: 9780446513821
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 331