Mr Nice - 21st Anniversary Edition (Paperback, Special edition)

21ST ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSH He was Britain's most wanted man. He spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary. You'll like him. During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons of marijuana, and had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA and the Mafia. Following a worldwide operation by the Drug Enforcement Agency, he was arrested and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at the Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana. He was released in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence. Told with humour, charm and candour, Mr Nice is his own extraordinary story. 'The story of a remarkable life, lived by the very brilliant and exceptionally wonderful Mr Nice' Irvine Welsh 'Frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and often surreal' GQ 'A man who makes Peter Pan look like a geriatric' Loaded 'A folk legend' Daily Mail

General

Imprint:	Vintage
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2017
First published:	2007
Authors:	Howard Marks
Introduction by:	Irvine Welsh
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	543
Edition:	Special edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-78470-590-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Fiction > True stories > Crime Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Drugs trade / drug trafficking Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-78470-590-X
Barcode:	9781784705909

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