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Bezig met laden... High: Confessions of an International Drug Smugglerdoor Brian O'Dea
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   Bibliodidact | Jun 25, 2016 |   ) Hagelstein | May 23, 2010 | High is funny at times, while being serious all of the time. O'Dea's writing style is real, giving his readers small punctuated glimpses into the drug trade, prison life, and the reality of often overblown sentencing laws for first-time drug offenders. He never shies away from admitting his mistakes, and gets a bit introspective at times while trying to just hang on and make it through another day. It also highlights the often absurd points about the US war on drugs, especially on the part of officials in other countries who supposedly have a stake in combatting the trafficking of illegal substances. The only thing I didn't really like about this book was that it seemed too condensed -- I know there's more that's not being told. The book is well written, and didn't come across as a "poor pitiful me" kind of story which it easily could have. Au contraire, it is more of a look at a man who screwed up, paid the price, and got himself out of the hole of his former existence. I'd recommend it to people who are interested in personal or inspirational memoirs, or people who are interested in reading about the drug trade. ( ) bcquinnsmom | Jun 20, 2009 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
In the early 1980s, Brian O’Dea was operating a $100 million a year, 120-man drug smuggling business, and had developed a terrifying cocaine addiction. Under increasing threat from the DEA in 1986 for importing seventy-five tons of marijuana into the United States, he quit the trade–and the drugs–and began working with recovering addicts in Santa Barbara. Despite his life change, the authorities caught up with him years later and O’Dea was arrested, tried, and sentenced to ten years at Terminal Island Federal Penitentiary in Los Angeles Harbor. A born storyteller, O’Dea candidly recounts his incredible experiences from the streets of Bogotá with a false-bottomed suitcase lined with cocaine, to the engine compartment of an old DC-6 whose engines were failing over the Caribbean, to the cell blocks overcrowded with small-time dealers who had fallen victim to the justice system’s perverse bureaucracy of drug sentencing. Weaving together extracts from his prison diary with the vivid recounting of his outlaw years and the dawning recognition of those things in his life that were worth living for, High tells the remarkable story of a remarkable man in the late-1980s drug business and why he walked away. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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