Doctor Dealer is the story of Larry Lavin a bright charismatic young man who rose from his working-class upbringing to win a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school earn Ivy League college and dental degrees and buy his family a house in one of Philadelphia s most exclusive suburbs. But behind the facade of his success was a dark secret -- at every step of the way he was building the foundation for a cocaine empire that would grow to generate over $60 million in annual sales. Award-winning journalist Mark Bowden tells the saga of Lavin s rise and fall with the gripping novelistic narrative style that won him international acclaim as the author of the New York Times best-seller Black Hawk Down. Immensely readable . . . eye-popping . . . a smoothly crafted exciting can t-put-it-down book. -- Louisville New Voice