Claim: The 1978 paperback of Snowblind by American author and journalist Robert Sabbag, published by Avon Books, was a bestseller, and novelist Robert Stone called it "One of the best books about drugs ever written" .
Evidence: Robert Sabbag is an American author and journalist. The 1978 paperback, published by Avon Books, was a bestseller. Novelist Robert Stone called Snowblind "One of the best books about drugs ever written." Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade, in which Forsman was given the pseudonym Zachary Swan, was published in hardcover three years later by the Bobbs-Merrill Company.