Mr Nice: An Autobiography - Softcover

Marks, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841953199 ISBN 13: 9781841953199

Publisher: Canongate UK, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Howard Marks is an acclaimed travel and sports writer, TV personality and DJ. For the last ten years he has had a series of successful one man shows. He lives in Europe and continues to campaign for the legalisation of marijuana.

Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate UK
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1841953199
• ISBN 13: 9781841953199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496