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| Original Title: | Mr. Nice. An Autobiography |
| ISBN: | 1841953199 (ISBN13: 9781841953199) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.howardmarks.name/ |
Howard Marks
Paperback | Pages: 560 pages Rating: 3.88 | 7652 Users | 285 Reviews
Present Epithetical Books Mr. Nice
| Title | : | Mr. Nice |
| Author | : | Howard Marks |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 560 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 2003 by Canongate UK (first published 1996) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Mystery. Crime |
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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.Rating Epithetical Books Mr. Nice
Ratings: 3.88 From 7652 Users | 285 ReviewsNotice Epithetical Books Mr. Nice
Howard Marks is one of a select few who have lived lives that us lesser mortals can only dream of and he really is rather nice. He started his journey as a Maths prodigy from a small Welsh village, attended Oxford university but later became Britain's most wanted man. During his various court appearences he provided evidence that he simulatenously worked for both the IRA and MI5, was prosecuted for smuggling more dope than anybody in history, had contacts with the mafia and finaly sentenced toProof of the fact that Oxford prepares its students for real life. Howard Marks really had f....g high IQ. Respect.
Marks was born and raised in Wales and became an Oxford academic. A combination of Marks being a hippy type and random circumstances led to becoming one of the worlds biggest hashish and Marijuna smugglers in the 1970s and 80s. He was recruited by MI6 through his Oxford connections after they found out he was smuggling Hash into Ireland with the help of a high ranking member of the IRA. They wanted Marks to spy on the IRA, although Marks knowledge of their inner workings did not go beyond their
The problem with updating Goodreads after a two-year absence is that I can't recall the titles of the books I've read, let alone the content. Read this in a holiday cottage in Scotland, while I was meant to be bonding with the family. Salient points: unassuming, well-read teacher gets in with bad lot. Becomes major player in hashish smuggling trade. Felonious japes ensue. Gets caught, goes to jail. Sees error of ways, writes book. Crime doesn't pay! Says H'ard, probably writing from the veranda
Surprisingly interesting autobiography of a marijuana smuggler.
For a man who likes to mention his famed charisma and Oxford-education at a rate of about once every seven pages (over about five hundred pages) it is startling just how dull and shallow Marks has managed to make this book. Entirely episodic, and almost entirely devoid of opinion or emotion, Marks cranks out page after page of needless detail, and it all starts to become a monotone. Marks completely fails to portray himself as being on any sort of moral crusade or being some sort of folk hero,
DNF. Took too long to get to the good bits. Book needs a good editor. And maybe a better writer.
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