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David Tuch

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David Tuch is an author and entrepreneur passionate about uncovering history's hidden chapters. His first book The Wireless Operator tells the extraordinary true story of his British cousin who rose to become the largest marijuana trafficker in American history.

Originally from New York, David has lived in England and France, and now makes his home in Brookline Massachusetts with his wife and four children.

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The Wireless Operator: The Untold Story of the British Sailor Who Invented the Modern Drug Trade

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Join us at Trident Booksellers on Newbury Street next Wednesday, November 5th at 6pm, where I'll be in conversation with John Woodward Jr., former CIA officer in the Clandestine Service and now Professor of International Relations at Boston University. It should be a great discussion.

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Welcome to the Monkey House

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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