Recollections of a RacketeerSmuggling Hash and Cash Around the World

Patrick, Lane

ISBN 10: 1845965787 / ISBN 13: 9781845965785

Verlag: Mainstream Publishing, 2010

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Recollections of a RacketeerSmuggling Hash and Cash Around the World
• Verlag: Mainstream Publishing
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1845965787
• ISBN-13: 9781845965785
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Good
• Gewicht: 220 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Patrick Lane was born in London in 1946. He was found guilty of racketeering in 1988 and served two years in prison in the US. He is now a full-time writer.