Smuggler's Blues (ePub)
A True Story of the Hippie Mafia (Cannabis Americana: Remembrance of the War on Plants, Volume 1)
(Sprache: Englisch)
Goodfellas meets Savages meets Catch Me If You Can in this true tale of high-stakes smuggling from pot's outlaw years.
Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut Wellesley boy who entered outlaw culture on a trip to Mexico, he...
Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut Wellesley boy who entered outlaw culture on a trip to Mexico, he...
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Goodfellas meets Savages meets Catch Me If You Can in this true tale of high-stakes smuggling from pot's outlaw years.
Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut Wellesley boy who entered outlaw culture on a trip to Mexico, he saw his search for a joint morph into a thrill-filled dope run smuggling two kilos across the border in his car door. He became a member of the Hippie Mafia, traveling the world to keep America high, living the underground life while embracing the hippie credo, rejecting hard drugs in favor of marijuana and hashish. With cameos by Whitey Bulger and Norman Mailer, Smuggler's Blues tells Stratton's adventure while centering on his last years as he travels from New York to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley to source and smuggle high-grade hash in the midst of civil war, from the Caribbean to the backwoods of Maine, and from the Chelsea Hotel to the Plaza as his fortunes rise and fall. All the while he is being pursued by his nemesis, a philosophical DEA agent who respects him for his good business practices.
A true-crime story that reads like fiction, Smuggler's Blues is a psychedelic road trip through international drug smuggling, the hippie underground, and the war on weed. As Big Marijuana emerges, it brings to vivid life an important chapter in pot's cultural history.
Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut Wellesley boy who entered outlaw culture on a trip to Mexico, he saw his search for a joint morph into a thrill-filled dope run smuggling two kilos across the border in his car door. He became a member of the Hippie Mafia, traveling the world to keep America high, living the underground life while embracing the hippie credo, rejecting hard drugs in favor of marijuana and hashish. With cameos by Whitey Bulger and Norman Mailer, Smuggler's Blues tells Stratton's adventure while centering on his last years as he travels from New York to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley to source and smuggle high-grade hash in the midst of civil war, from the Caribbean to the backwoods of Maine, and from the Chelsea Hotel to the Plaza as his fortunes rise and fall. All the while he is being pursued by his nemesis, a philosophical DEA agent who respects him for his good business practices.
A true-crime story that reads like fiction, Smuggler's Blues is a psychedelic road trip through international drug smuggling, the hippie underground, and the war on weed. As Big Marijuana emerges, it brings to vivid life an important chapter in pot's cultural history.
Autoren-Porträt von Richard Stratton
Richard Stratton is also the author of the cult classic novel Smack Goddess and an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. He was a writer and consultant for HBO's Oz and the creator, writer, and executive producer of Showtime's Street Time. He is a court-certified expert on prison culture, prison violence, and international drug trafficking. As a journalist, he won a New York Press Club award for his magazine article "Godfather and Son." He was the founder of the magazine Prison Life and an editor and publisher of High Times. He lives with his wife and children in New York City.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Richard Stratton
- 2016, Proprietary, 320 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
- ISBN-10: 1628726709
- ISBN-13: 9781628726701
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.04.2016
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“Many of the tales of his real-life adventures in search of a massive high and the ultimate payday are absorbing in the same zany way as his fiction.” —Publishers Weekly“A wild, entertaining ride . . . A compulsively interesting story with the requisite drama and suspense that will keep the pages turning . . . Stratton throws in a lot of extra color by way of lavish spending, sex, and glittering parties that make heads spin. Near misses abound and offer great fun for readers.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Smuggler’s Blues is an adrenaline rush, a high-stakes ride from Maine to Lebanon to the Caribbean . . . This book will get under your skin, enter your blood stream, and mess with your head.” —T. J. English, New York Times–best-selling author The Savage City and Havana Nocturne
“Crazed drug cowboys, daredevil pilots, Lebanese hashish lords, a DEA nemesis who’s half Javert, half Columbo . . . Smuggler’s Blues is not only a mad romp, it’s a brilliant indictment of the flaming absurdity of America’s war on drugs.” —David Talbot, founder of Salon and author of The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
“Smuggler’s Blues is a must-read for those enticed by nonstop adventure and outlaw books. It’s definitely one for the handy bookshelf.” —Provincetown Banner
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