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Smuggler: A true story of marijuana, the hippie mafia and one of America's most wanted international drug traffickers
Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of drug kingpins. He was a clean-cut college student who fell in love with the adrenaline high of cross-border drug trafficking after bringing two kilos of marijuana across the US border from a trip to Mexico. He never looked back. Stratton became a member of the hippie mafia, living the underground life while embracing the hippie credo, rejecting hard drugs in favour of marijuana and hashish, which he brought into the US by the ton. As an anti-establishment outlaw he was friends with Norman Mailer. As a major drug importer he worked with Whitey Bulger and some of the most notorious American crime figures.
Smuggler gives the no-holds-barred account of Stratton's life as one of America's biggest traffickers. From Lebanon to the Caribbean, from improvised airstrips in the backwoods of New England to the badlands of the US-Mexican border, and from five-star Manhattan hotels to the brutal reality of federal prison and a 25-year sentence, we follow his story as his fortunes rise and fall.
A true crime memoir that reads like fiction, Smuggler is an incredible and revealing trip into the world of international drug trafficking.
Smuggler gives the no-holds-barred account of Stratton's life as one of America's biggest traffickers. From Lebanon to the Caribbean, from improvised airstrips in the backwoods of New England to the badlands of the US-Mexican border, and from five-star Manhattan hotels to the brutal reality of federal prison and a 25-year sentence, we follow his story as his fortunes rise and fall.
A true crime memoir that reads like fiction, Smuggler is an incredible and revealing trip into the world of international drug trafficking.
- GenresTrue Crime
278 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 22, 2016
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August 26, 2020
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Told from the kingpin himself, Smuggler tells the history of marijuana, hippie culture and drug trafficking. Stratton became obsessed with the thrill of illicit substances, an obsession that soon turned into a career supplying the drug industries of multiple countries. This is a fast paced look into the drug underworld, through the eyes of someone that has been there.
Anastasia- The Book Grocer
Told from the kingpin himself, Smuggler tells the history of marijuana, hippie culture and drug trafficking. Stratton became obsessed with the thrill of illicit substances, an obsession that soon turned into a career supplying the drug industries of multiple countries. This is a fast paced look into the drug underworld, through the eyes of someone that has been there.
Anastasia- The Book Grocer
May 26, 2021
Poserish, unoriginal. The last half was tedious. If you want a unique, engaging, fascinating read on the subject (in proper chronological order), read Howard Marks's autobiography, Mr Nice.
June 17, 2022
WHAT A RIDE!!!! I've read three of his books and they are extremely well written and very exciting. And it's all true! An excellent read. BUY IT.
November 16, 2023
Umsangalo lo, uma ukhonze umsangano ongayindawo thenga lencwadi.
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