The Howard Marks' Book of Dope Stories
Author(s): Howard Marks
The Howard Marks Boook of Dope Stories will take you on an electrifying journey through the discovery, consumption and trade of mind-altering substances. Worshipped and demonised, force-fed, and forbidden, every society has had an intoxicant, be it sacrament or scourge. An unforgettable once in a lifetime trip, this book includes the author's favourite drug writing from Alexander Dumas to Aleister Crowley via Hunter S. Thompson and Charles Baudelaire, as well as previously unpublished works and many new and compelling pieces by Mr Nice himself. In the mid-1980's Howard Marks had 43 aliases and 89 phone lines. He was Britain's most wanted man. He had contacts with the IRA, the CIA, MI6 and the Mafia. His autobiography, Mr Nice, tells the extraordinary story of his dope-smuggling escapades with humour and charm. Paperback
General Information
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- : vinteb
- : vinteb
- : 0.382
- : 01 November 2001
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Howard Marks
- : Paperback
- : 400
More About The Product
"A folk legend... Howard Marks has huge charisma. He sounds like Richard Burton and looks like a Rolling Stone." - "Daily Mail"
During the mid 19802 Howard Marks had forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines and owned twenty-five companics trading throughout the world. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons of marijuana, and had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA and the Mafia. Following a worldwide operation by the Drugs Enforcement Agency, he was busted and sentence d to twenty-five years in prison at Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana. He was released in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence. Told with humour, charm and candour, Mr Nice is his extraordinary story.
