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This exciting account of Dan "Tito" Davis's life on the run in the Latin America due to his connection with the drug trade is a fast paced read. His journey takes him to various parts of Mexico, Colombia, Panama and Venezuela, with some interludes in Cuba, Germany, Indonesia and India, among other places. He is helped by people who, though belonging to criminal background, value honour more than money, even life itself. He gets into several sticky situations, mainly due to his own well acknowledged stupidity, and gets out of them by providence.
Barring the few omissions, some unnecessarily detailed events, unqualified comments on societies and cultures, and the sudden ending, I much enjoyed this ride and would rate it a 3.5 stars.
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aravind_aar | 3 andere besprekingen | Nov 21, 2021 |
"I was not tempted by pot or any other illegal drugs because, believe it or not, there were none."

Gringo: My Life on the Edge as an International Fugitive was sent to me for review through OnlineBookClub.

This was honestly my first true crime story. I've been trying to read more nonfiction, and thought this book might be a good way to do so. I couldn't have been more right.

I really love the way that this book expresses Dan "Tito" Davis' fear as he travels through South America. He included the absolute terror he had whenever he had to show his fake papers. He also added in the kinds of thoughts that flooded his mind during these incidents. This made the book feel more realistic.

Dan Davis also includes a lot of history about meth and White Crosses. As someone who loves to learn, this really satisfied my curiosity. It gave me a better feel for the kind of trouble he was in as a fugitive drug-dealer, and taught me something that I never even realized I wanted to know.

There weren't many things that I didn't like about this book, but there were a few things that I feel are important to mention. One of these things is the length of the book. Because it's a fairly short book covering around 30 or so years, a lot of it felt crammed in and rushed. Some of the chapters covered a couple years of his life, so when crazy events happened, they seemingly happened all in a row (though sometimes they actually took years to happen or had years between them). This made some of the events less believable and made me question whether they were actually true or not.

Another thing that really bothered me was the ending. I felt that the ending was too abrupt. I invested quite a bit of time into reading this book, only for the ending to leave me wanting a lot more information. It just didn't wrap up the story at all.

I also found some grammar issues that were too hard to ignore. Throughout the book, there were a few places where paragraphs were repeated in slightly different manners, as if he rewrote a paragraph during the editing process and then forgot to delete the original. This made me really confused at first, as it took a while to realize that this is what happened.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. I would recommend it to anyone in need of adventure.
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RavenNight | 3 andere besprekingen | Jun 9, 2019 |
2 down on the 2019 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge. Challenge #20 is to read "a book written in Prison." Dan "Tito" Davis wrote a 700 page manuscript while in federal prison on drug charges. Peter Conti took that manuscript, and in close collaboration with Davis turned it into a manageable book, Gringo: My Live on the Edge as an International Fugitive. The book reads as a fascinating travelogue, or even a business how-to (How I earned $50 million a year while studying at UNLV; How I built a luxury, world-famous resort in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela), assuming you don't mind being the fellow traveler of a man on the run from the U.S. Federal Government. Davis's "life on the edge" takes him to Mexico, post Pablo Escobar Medellin, Colombia, Panama's Darien Gap, and finally Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, with side trips to Cuba, Bavaria, Spain, Bali and India. Along the way he meets and marries various beautiful women, always leaving them behind because his life on the run would not be fair to the women (and in a couple of cases, children), or, to be fair, in the last case because he's in handcuffs and then in federal detention. The main lesson I took away from this cautionary tale is that there is no honor among thieves, but the ride was exhilarating. Highly recommended.… (meer)
 
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