Howard Marks Mr. Nice ISBN 13: 9781841953199

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During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and owned 25 companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios, or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealing. Marks began to deal small amounts of hashish while doing a postgraduate philosophy course at Oxford, but soon he was moving much larger quantities. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to 50 tons from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada and had contact with organizations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA, and the Mafia. This is his extraordinary story.

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What an extraordinary fellow Howard Marks is. His autobiography takes him from his South Wales childhood and Oxford University education through his life dealing marijuana and the enormous mythology that accrued around what the tabloids called "the English Toff Drugs King of the World". This book is called Mr Nice after one of the many aliases Marks's life as a merchant of pot obliged him to assume, but it describes him perfectly too: the epitome of British niceness, the nicest international criminal you could hope to meet. It's not hard to see why this has become a cult book--Marks is a brilliant version of a mate down the pub, telling you the gobsmacking stories of his many adventured life. The writing is direct and the narrative will detain you as comprehensively as Marks himself was detained for seven years at Terre Haut Penitentiary, Indiana. He was released the same day as Mike Tyson. "I had," he observes mildly, "been continuously in prison for the last six-and-a-half years for transporting beneficial herbs from one place to another, while he had done three years for rape." Truly there is no justice; but there are eye-popping adventures, hilarious touches and a thorough-going wisdom in this excellent book. --Adam Roberts
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""A folk legend--Howard Marks has huge charisma. He sounds like Richard Burton and looks like a Rolling Stone." --"Daily Mail

""Frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and often surreal." "GQ" ""

""A man who makes Peter Pan look like a geriatric with sleeping sickness." "Loaded"

""Marks weaves a fascinating story spiced with brilliant detail, far stronger than fiction." "FHM Magazine"

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

"Marks weaves a fascinating story spiced with brilliant detail, far stronger than fiction." --FHM Magazine

"Frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and often surreal." --GQ

"A man who makes Peter Pan look like a geriatric with sleeping sickness." --Loaded

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

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  • PublisherCanongate Books Ltd
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 1841953199
  • ISBN 13 9781841953199
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages480
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