Mr Nice - Howard Marks

This is one of the best books I have ever read. It is an auto biography about Howard Marks, who went to Oxford University, and was involved in Dope smuggling. It tells his story from an early age right up to being released from an american prison. The writing is compelling( I read this book cover to cover in about three long evenings.) His story is extraordinarily interesting, as it details his smuggling and associates with such detail, that you finish the book, and are always on the look out for his accomplices. He is a very likeable person, who appears to be very intelligent, and very witty. He has a regular column in Loaded magazine, which I would like to read ...

Howard Marks, son of the Welsh valleys, Oxford student and international dope smuggler, writes his autobiography with the speed and panache with which his life has been lived. Initiated into the joys of marijuana whilst at Oxford, Howard quickly spies an opportunity to make money fast. Dope is really taking off in the halls of academia and it’s pretty difficult to get hold of. What is needed is an entrepreneur with nerves of steel who can supply the ever-increasing demand. And so Marks begins a life of globe-trotting, money-making, crime, police-evasion and subterfuge that is the stuff of action movies. At one point Howard had 43 ...

Depending on your viewpoint on the use of cannabis, you will either tut loudly all the way through, or have a right good belly laugh. Either way, this is a highly entertaining and informative look at the world of drug smuggling. Howard Marks still possesses his slow, rather deep and drawling Southern Welsh accent, and if you've heard his voice the once you can clearly hear it telling you his stories. Stories about growing up a intellectually gifted child; his rise to the world of academia and universities; the gradual drift into the world of quick money drug dealing; the friendships that would haunt him in later life. The relationships ...