Download or read book Hashish written by Henri de Monfreid and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1973 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adventures of a Hashish Smuggler written by Henri de Monfreid and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobleman, writer, adventurer and inspiration for the swashbuckling gun runner in the Adventures of Tintin, Henri de Monfreid lived by his own account “a rich, restless, magnificent life” as one of the great travelers of his or any age. The son of a French artist who knew Paul Gaugin as a child, de Monfreid sought his fortune by becoming a collector and merchant of the fabled Persian Gulf pearls. He was then drawn into the shadowy world of arms trading, slavery, smuggling and drugs. Infamous as well as famous, his name is inextricably linked to the Red Sea and the raffish ports between Suez and Aden in the early years of the twentieth century. De Monfreid (1879 to 1974) had a long life of many adventures around the Horn of Africa where he dodged pirates as well as the authorities. In Adventures of a Hashish Smuggler, de Monfreid, who was not particularly law-abiding by nature and was essentially a professional gunrunner, tells the story of his one foray into the world of hashish smuggling during the 1920s. The source of the hashish was Greece, where hemp was openly grown. The market was Egypt, where the British government had banned the popular drug. When de Monfreid got the notion of going to Greece to purchase hashish to smuggle into Egypt, he didn’t even know what hashish looked like. De Monfreid arranged to have 600 kilos of hashish brought from Greece to Marseilles and then into Djibouti, a French colony. From there, he sailed with it in his own “boutre” or dhow and a loyal crew of natives (assembled when he had run the pearl-diving operation) up the Red Sea to Suez, from where the shipment was carried on to Cairo by camel caravan. Along the way de Monfreid had several close calls and met a number of colorful characters. Shortly after de Monfreid’s venture, the Greek monarchy was turned out and the Second Hellenic Republic was declared. Under strong pressure and with economic inducements from Great Britain, the new Greek government outlawed the production of hashish.
Download or read book The Smugglers Ghost written by Steve Lamb and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marijuana turned a Florida teen into a millionaire fugitive
Download or read book Weed written by Jerry Kamstra and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly readable book by Jerry Kamstra is about marijuana and marijuana smuggling but it is also about Mexico itself. What started out as a simple photographic expedition turned into a major smuggling operation involving a ton of marijuana and the hair-raising means -- ocean and air -- used to bring the weed into the States. This absorbing story reads like an adventure novel -- but it's all true.
Download or read book Blowback written by Lee Bullman and published by Pan. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 29 June 1988 Michael Forwell (aka The Fox) had it all - fast cars and speedboats, a nightclub in Singapore, a private island, a beautiful wife and children. And a ship heading towards California carrying 72 tons of high-grade Thai marijuana, his last deal before going straight. On 30 June the DEA seized the ship in the biggest dope bust in history ... and very soon Michael had nothing at all. A mild-mannered, public school educated Englishman who abhors violence, Michael was not the most likely drug smuggler but he was certainly one of the most successful. Now he shares his astonishing adventures as he found ever more inventive ways to smuggle dope from South-East Asia to the US. By the eighties Michael was juggling aliases, dodging the authorities and making millions of dollars. Until that final deal, too good to pass by, went horribly wrong and he was forced to go on the lam. Fast-paced and funny, The Fox takes us on an adrenalin-charged journey with a charming rogue, revealing the fun he had and the price he ultimately paid.
Download or read book Hashish written by Henri de Monfreid and published by Viking Press. This book was released on 1985-05 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A drug smuggler of the twenties recounts his experiences traveling on the Red Sea and describes the unusual people he met
Download or read book How I Got Here written by Larry Bridges and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marijuana Smuggler's Guide is the real life, extraordinary, coming of age adventures of an illiterate teenager who became one of the largest drug smugglers in the country. The Marijuana Smuggler's Guide is a heartfelt, fast-paced, "must read" for anyone thinking about involving themselves or their family in the marijuana industry.
Download or read book Smuggling With Jesus written by Hank Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smuggling With Jesus is a book by Hank Cooper about his drug smuggling years in Pakistan, Thailand and Bolivia. The book chronicles Cooper's years as a drug smuggler in the 1970s and 1980s. He details his experiences smuggling hashish from Pakistan to Thailand, and later cocaine from Bolivia to the United States. Cooper also describes his interactions with law enforcement, the drug trade, and the people he met while smuggling. Smuggling With Jesus is an entertaining and enlightening look at the world of drug smuggling. Cooper's stories are fascinating, and his insights into the drug trade are valuable. The book is an easy read, and Cooper's writing style is engaging. Overall, Smuggling With Jesus is an enjoyable and informative book about the drug trade. Smuggling With Jesus is an interesting read for anyone interested in the drug trade or in tales of adventure. Cooper's stories are often humorous, and his observations about the people and places he encountered are often insightful.
Download or read book Smokescreen written by Robert Sabbag and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allen Long possessed charisma and cunning in equal measure. But he needed to know that those around him could handle pressure. After all, they'd be violating Columbian and US airspace in a dilapidated DC-3 and landing in bandit country. This is the follow-up to the drug smuggling tale Snowblind.
Download or read book Damian Garcia Phd Drug Smuggler written by Chris Mosquera and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1972, Damian Garcia is a streetwise kid from New York. His draft number is low, which means he could soon be called upon to kill people in Vietnam. As a peace-loving vegetarian, Damian is ready to move to Canadauntil he finds another route: graduate school. There, he learns the importance of image. After all, who would suspect a grad student of being a drug smuggler? Damians business plan focuses a new combination of opium and hashish that his fellow students brand O/H. They work together and trust each other. They dont sell on the streets, instead targeting other students, doctors, lawyers people the cops would never expect to be using. They make millions, and no one suspects a thing. They are not gangsters; they use brains instead of brawn, as modeled by their leader, Damian. They are honest drug smugglers, investing their vast profits in helping the poor and those in need. Only students directly involved ever know about the covert business, but together they form a family, loyal and loving through and beyond graduation day.
Download or read book Jackpot written by Jason Ryan and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a cat-and-mouse game played out in exotic locations across the globe, the smugglers sailed through hurricanes, broke out of jail and survived encounters with armed militants in Colombia, Grenada and Lebanon. Based on years of research and interviews with imprisoned and recently released smugglers and the law enforcement agents who tracked them down, Jackpot -- A Wall Street Journal True Crime Bestseller -- does for marijuana smuggling what Blow and Snowblind did for the cocaine trade.
Download or read book My Most Wanted Marijuana Mom written by David Michael McNelis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You are about to enter a world of drug smuggling, drug greed, and drug murder." With those words, the West Palm Beach assistant DA began the 1986 murder trial of Judy "Haas" McNelis. The only woman on the U.S. Federal Marshal's 15 Most-Wanted List, she gained infamy as head of the "Haas Organization," a reputed $267 million per year marijuana empire. But before her jet-set lifestyle as a drug "queen-pin," Haas was simply a divorcee with two young children and a penchant for growing pot. David McNelis' candid memoir recounts his life with a brash, free-spirited mother determined to achieve success in the male-dominated world of international narcotics smuggling. A studious kid striving for normalcy, McNelis is thrust into an extraordinary adventure where dealers, smugglers, daredevil pilots, federal agents, hitmen, and even an accused KGB spy all become part of "normal" life.
Download or read book Adventures of a Red Sea Smuggler written by Henri de Monfreid and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pearls Arms and Hashish written by Henri de Monfreid and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1930, this is the personal adventure narrative of Henri de Monfreid—nobleman, writer, adventurer and inspiration for the swashbuckling gun runner in the Adventures of Tintin. “Henri de Monfried satisfies the most exacting reader. One is never for a moment suspicious that his amanuensis is crediting him with words he could not use or thoughts he would not entertain. The impression conveyed by Ida Treat's really superb rendering of the French searover's story is that M. de Monfried could write very well indeed if he thought it worthwhile, but that he expresses himself as a rule in other ways. “Briefly, Henri de Monfried is the son of a Bostonian artist of French descent who lived in the south of France and married a French peasant girl. The boy grew up and tried various callings, but finally yielded to a Wanderlust which took him to French Somaliland, at the southern end of the Red Sea. He became a Moslem and engaged in pearling, gunrunning, slaving, and the smuggling of hashish into Egypt. He has a family. He is fifty years old. The Arabs call him Abd el Hai. This book is what he calls the first half of his life. He is too interested in life itself to take consolation in memoirs as yet. The British navy calls him the Sea Wolf. He makes a hobby of raising the French flag on islands inconveniently near to British coaling stations. “There are [...] sketches of sea-boards and seamen in this book which recall the master's hand and mind. And there is never a word too much. A touch light as a feather; an ironical glance as his adversary departs defeated, or an equally ironical bow as the British Lion mauls him and lets him go—to try again.”—Saturday Review
Download or read book Smuggler s Blues written by Richard Stratton and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A true-crime story that reads like fiction, SMUGGLER'S BLUES is a psychedelic road trip through internation drug smuggling, the hippie underground, and the war on weed. The first part of Richard Stratton's three-part memoir of America's War on Drugs told from the inside, it brings to vivid life an important chapter in pot's cultural history." -- page 4 of cover.
Download or read book The Bandit of Kabul written by Jerry Beisler and published by Trine Day. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with cutting-edge, global commentary on the last days of the legal Afghanistan-to-Amsterdam hash-smuggling route, this memoir tells of Jerry Beisler’s adventures around Asia and the United States. Complete with hedonism, high jinks, and humor, the fast-paced narrative also tells of serial killer Charles Sobaraj, the early days of reggae across the Caribbean, the genesis of the Emerald Triangle pot plantations, the Dalai Lama, and Jerry Garcia and other counterculture musicians from the late 1960s and 1970s. Now in its second edition, this firsthand account contains additional artwork, photographs, and stories.
Download or read book High written by Brian O'Dea and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2006 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a privileged son of Newfoundland became one of the world's most efficient marijuana traffickers - and then gave it all up. An intriguing ad ran in the Employment Wanted section of a Toronto newspaper in February 2001: "FORMER MARIJUANA SMUGGLER"" Having successfully completed a ten-year sentence, incident free, for importing 75 tons of marijuana into the United States, I am now seeking a legal and legitimate means to support myself and my family. Business experience: Owned and operated a successful fishing business -- multi-vessel, one airplane, one island and processing facility. Simultaneously owned and operated a fleet of tractor-trailer trucks conducting business in the western United States. During this time I also participated in the executive level management of 120 people worldwide in a successful pot-smuggling venture with revenues in excess of $100-million US annually..." Among the advertiser's references was the US district attorney who was responsible for his arrest in 1990 and who had reminded the trial judge that the offence could carry the death penalty. The ad made news around the world and also captured the resilient spirit of Brian O'Dea, a remarkable man who, even in his darkest hours of addiction and criminality, never lost the love of family and friends. The O'Dea family is well known in government and legal circles in Newfoundland. But the family's prominence could not protect their middle son from sexual abuse at the hands of priests. Brian became the black sheep, and turned to drugs in his late teens for the money, for the excitement, and for an escape from himself. Twenty-five years later, when the cops finally knocked on his door atthe end of a massive DEA investigation, he had given up the trade and was a recovered cocaine addict working as a drug addiction counsellor in Santa Barbara. He had finally begun to understand how he had ended up in the drug world. He was tried and sentenced to ten years to be served at Terminal Island federal prison in Los Angeles Harbor. High interweaves extracts of his prison diary - perceptive, funny and alarming all at once - with the vivid recounting of his outlaw years and the dawning recognition of those things in his life that were worth living for.
