Hunting Marco Polo by Paul Eddy
For more than 20 years Howard Marks knew no other life than that of trafficking marijuana. He began selling it to make ends meet in 1966 when he was an undergraduate at Balliol College, Oxford. Between 1971 and 1973 alone he smuggled ten tons of cannabis into England. He charmed, bluffed and bribed his way out of trouble at every turn, fooling the British police and the Government in the process. This is the story of an international drug-trafficking organization and of the obsession of one man to put Marks behind bars. Craig Lovato, a special agent of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, stopped at nothing to gather evidence against Marks and his confederates, evaluating thousands of taped telephone conversations, surveillance photographs and documents. His pursuit of Howard Marks became a cat-and-mouse game played out in 14 countries around the world. In November 1989 Marks, by now in a Spanish prison, was extradited to America. Yet, even behind bars in Miama awaiting trial, Marks did not give up. For months he worked on an elaborate defence, designed to beat the prosecutors with an mixture of dissimulation and outright perjury. He remained supremely confident, but then Lovato played his final card. The authors are former members of the "The Sunday Times" Insight team. They also wrote "The Cocaine Wars".
Eddy, Paul: - Formerly editor of the London Sunday Times' Insight Team, Paul Eddy now writes investigative articles for the Sunday Times magazine. He is the coauthor of eight nonfiction books on subjects ranging from war to espionage to terrorism, most recently The Cocaine Wars and Hunting Marco Polo.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593019658 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593019652 |
| Title | Hunting Marco Polo |
| Author | Paul Eddy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 1991-02-14 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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