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Synopsis
"Brilliant! Outrageously entertaining and absurdly funny."
Howard Marks
"Dull? Never. Illegal? Of course. Gripping? Always."
Zoo
"Lane delivers an informative, interesting and surprising insight into his life as a smuggler... A knockout read."
Inside Time
Patrick Lane's obsession with drugs began in his early teens. Nineteenth-century French literature introduced him to a world of hashish, opium and absinthe, which he saw as a way of escaping his boring suburban English existence. Unable to find any hashish as a schoolboy in north London, he went to Morocco for supplies. Between school and university, he hitched around America in the mid-1960s, taking LSD with Timothy Leary. After teaming up with Howard Marks, they smuggled suitcases of hashish out of Afghanistan and Pakistan into Europe and VW campers filled with hashish from Lebanon into California.
During the course of his extraordinary career, he witnessed revolution in Afghanistan, an unsuccessful coup in Greece, the preservation of the monarchy in Nepal and illicit arms deals with Saddam Hussein. Along the way, he befriended Wall Street bankers, Mafia dons (and Oxford dons), hashish-eating goats, dissolute English lords and French peasants.
Recollections of a Racketeer is a rollicking and at times hilarious tale of a life lived on the wrong side of the law.
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About the Author
After graduating from Sussex University with a degree in English, Patrick joined Price Waterhouse & Co in the City of London as a bowler-hat wearing chartered accountant. Moving to France followed by Switzerland and then California, he pursued a career in international finance as a smuggler for many years before moving to Miami to manage a smoked salmon factory. The next fifteen years were spent as International Business Director for a publicly-owned software company followed by five years as a senior administrator at an American university. Patrick was found guilty of racketeering and served time in a Federal Penitentiary where he discovered the works of Marcel Proust.
Review
"Brilliant! Outrageously entertaining and absurdly funny."
Howard Marks
"Dull? Never. Illegal? Of course. Gripping? Always."
Zoo
"Lane delivers an informative, interesting and surprising insight into his life as a smuggler... A knockout read."
Inside Time
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- PublisherThistle Publishing
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1786080346
- ISBN 13 9781786080349
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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