Characters include a one-handed kingpin, a lawyer who suffers from dwarfism, and twin brothers, one a crazed photographer and the other a mild-mannered antique dealer.
Then actions, which would be greedy and irresponsible in a confessed kingpin, become innocent rebellion, undertaken to toss off oppression by invisible elites.
Although thirteen of the big bosses reportedly had been identified by early 1988, arrests of drug kingpins were infrequently reported because of lack of evidence.