Howard Marks' Book Of Dope Stories

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Howard Marks' Book Of Dope Stories
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Howard Marks
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:560
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreBiographies and autobiography
True Crime
Anthologies
ISBN/Barcode 9780099428558
ClassificationsDewey:823.008355
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Vintage
Publication Date 1 November 2001
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This will be a totally different kind of anthology to anything we've seen before, filled with everything but the predictable. Howard Marks has gathered together all of the unpublished material sent to him over the years from drug users, traffickers, smugglers, prisoners; people from all walks of life. Along with such insightful, funny and original work Marks will add his own personal collection of some of the best contemporary writing on drugs.

Author Biography

During the mid-1980s Howard Marks had forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines and owned twenty-five companies 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 sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana. He was released in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence. His autobiography, Mr Nice, was first published in 1996 and has been published in nine languages. The film of Mr Nice, starring Rhys Ifans, Chloe Sevigny and David Thewliss, was released in 2010.

Reviews

"A folk legend... Howard Marks has huge charisma. He sounds like Richard Burton and looks like a Rolling Stone." - "Daily Mail"