The Fruit Palace Author:Charles Nicholl Charles Nicholl is a prize-winning author whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone and in prominent publications in England. He first visited Colombia in the early 1970's, and at a dockside cafe called The Fruit Palace had his first brush with drug smugglers. Twelve years later, he went back to investigate the cocaine underworl. — The Fruit Palac... more »e is the gripping true-life account of that journey.« less