The Last Run

The true story of an American woman, Kay Wolff, who found herself playing for high stakes as the girlfriend of a Colombian drug czar chronicles how she escaped to freedom, accompanied by two young children.

The pseudonymous Wolff went to Colombia in search of adventure and became involved with one of the major cocaine-trafficking families. She served the padrones by concealing the drug for transport in luggage and in furniture cushions as well as acting as a carrier herself. In the early '70s her uneasiness at remaining in politically troubled Colombia increased when she witnessed the murder of a gang member. Politically liberal, she had difficulty treating servants with the expected arrogance and was distressed by the street urchins endemic to every city. She adopted two of these gamines and determined to take them back to the U.S. The story of her last run, told expertly with freelance writer Taylor, is excruciatingly suspenseful. 35,000 first printing; author tour.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Nineteen years after her involvement in the Columbian cocaine network, Wolff (a pseudonym), along with writer Taylor, tells the true story of her drug-running activities and subsequent escape across the border with her two illegally adopted daughters. Wolff originally became involved in drug smuggling to make money and have excitement. Her talents as an expert seamstress and artist got her involved in a very powerful cocaine smuggling family, and she became the girlfriend of the son of one of the powerful cocaine padrones . After a year of increasingly more dangerous escapades and increased drug dependency, Wolff realized that she would have to try to escape. Obviously Wolff now sees the harm cocaine causes and wishes to tell her story, but she lacks insight into the motivation of the key players and the harm she personally caused. Not recommended.
- Sandra K. Lindheimer, Middlesex Law Lib., Cambridge, Mass.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.