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Mr. Nice Book

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 RobertsRead More

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  • Amazon

    During the mid-1980s, Marks had 43 aliases and 25 companies, all laundering money from dealing cannabis. After a world-wide operation, he was arrested and sentenced to 25 years at a State Penitentiary in Indiana, but was released in 1995 after serving seven years. This is his own story.

  • Play

    During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five 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 philosopy course at Oxford but soon he was moving much larger quantities. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to fifty tons from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada and had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6 the CIA the IRA and the Mafia. Mr Nice is Howard Marks extraordinary story.

  • ASDA

    During the mid-1980s Marks had 43 aliases and 25 companies all laundering money from dealing cannabis. After a world-wide operation he was arrested and sentenced to 25 years at a State Penitentiary in Indiana but was released in 1995 after serving seven years. This is his own story.

  • BookDepository

    Mr Nice : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9780749395698 : : 13 Jun 2008 : The incredible story of an unconventional life During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world.

  • Foyles

    The incredible story of an unconventional life During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies...

  • 0749395699
  • 9780749395698
  • Howard Marks
  • 2 June 1997
  • Vintage
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 466
  • New edition
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