Robert Sabbag is an American journalist and author of two books on drugs smuggling in the United States:Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade and the follow-up book Smokescreen: A True Adventure. More recently he has written a book based on the plane crash he survived in 1979, titled Down Around Midnight (Viking, 2009).

A regular contributor to Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

magazine, he was one of the screenwriters for the 1999 TV motion picture Witness Protection

Witness Protection (film)

Witness Protection is a 1999 American television movie directed by Richard Pearce. The teleplay by Daniel Therriault is based on a New York Times Magazine article entitled The Invisible Family by Robert Sabbag...

, based on his New York Times Magazine cover story "The Invisible Family", which was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture.

External links

• Chronicle interview of Robert Sabbag by Clay Smith - http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A84358