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Original Title:	Mr. Nice. An Autobiography
ISBN:	1841953199 (ISBN13: 9781841953199)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.howardmarks.name/

Mr. Nice Paperback | Pages: 560 pages

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Title	:	Mr. Nice
Author	:	Howard Marks
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 560 pages
Published	:	August 1st 2003 by Canongate UK (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Mystery. Crime

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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.

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The cover states " he was Britain's most wanted man. He has just spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary. You'll like him" Well, i didn't. He is an intelligent stoner who wants to be mega famous. He name drops and makes exaggerated claims. His wife was distraught when she got arrested, yet was happy spending the money. Boring boring boring. Get a proper life!

Surprisingly interesting autobiography of a marijuana smuggler.

Surprisingly interesting autobiography of a marijuana smuggler.

For a man who likes to mention his famed charisma and Oxford-education at a rate of about once every seven pages (over about five hundred pages) it is startling just how dull and shallow Marks has managed to make this book. Entirely episodic, and almost entirely devoid of opinion or emotion, Marks cranks out page after page of needless detail, and it all starts to become a monotone. Marks completely fails to portray himself as being on any sort of moral crusade or being some sort of folk hero,

Smoke weed every day.

Marks was born and raised in Wales and became an Oxford academic. A combination of Marks being a hippy type and random circumstances led to becoming one of the worlds biggest hashish and Marijuna smugglers in the 1970s and 80s. He was recruited by MI6 through his Oxford connections after they found out he was smuggling Hash into Ireland with the help of a high ranking member of the IRA. They wanted Marks to spy on the IRA, although Marks knowledge of their inner workings did not go beyond their

I read this many years ago and remember being mildly disappointed, as I had high hopes. I'd seen Marks interviewed on TV and read various newspaper articles on him; in all of which he cam across as a charismatic, chancer, with an interesting background. A highly intelligent working class lad from the Welsh Valleys who had won a scholarship to an Oxbridge University who went on to lead one of the World's largest Hash smuggling rings. I was looking forward to reading the book. Unfortunately the