Beskrivning
Beskrivning
Howard Marks is the most famous drug smuggler of his age, and a hero to ageneration. On his release from one of America’s toughest prisons,Howard made a promise to himself to go straight. No more drugs, no moresmuggling, no more fake passports. He would retire to a quiet life withhis family in the Balearic Islands of Spain. It didn’t quite work outthat way.This was the mid-nineties, the height of the ecstasyand clubbing boom, and Ibiza was at the very centre of the vortex forthe ’E generation’. Pills had taken the place of marijuana, PaulOakenfold had replaced The Rolling Stones as the music of the masses,but some people are just born for life on the other side of the law.Itwasn’t long before Howard found himself trying pure ecstasy and rubbingshoulders with some of the king-pins of the pill trade. These includedsome of Britain’s most notorious gangsters, who were laundering millionsof pounds of gold stolen from the legendary Brink’s-Mat bullion raid.As Britons descended on Ibiza ahead of one of the greatest summers ofthe nineties, Howard was preparing for his most outrageous operationyet.Incredibly funny, moving and scabrous, Howard Marks’ Mr Smileyfollows a journey to the heartland of the clubbing and British crimescene. It is also a fitting last word from one of Britain’s best lovedbad boys.
