Days of the Trap: Freedom Is Just A Million Dollars Away

by Johnny Mitchell

In the waning days of marijuana prohibition in the pacific northwest, a generation of young outlaws is scrambling to turn the green leaf into cold cash.

Johnny is one of these men.

Raised in middle-class Portland, from an early age the impressionable Johnny was enamored by the street life. After getting his start selling dime bags from his college dorm room, a chance connection with an East Coast criminal syndicate presents him with the opportunity of a lifetime.

Now, with legalization looming and the DEA closing in, Johnny must race to make a million dollars before it's too late.

"Days of the Trap " is based on the author's life as a marijuana bootlegger, and follows his journey from small-time hustler to kingpin, and finally, through his time in the federal prison system.

184 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 23, 2020

Reviews

[Peter Banachowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book reads like "Goodfellas" meets "Boogie Nights" written in the style of a modern noir, chalk full of hilarious simile and metaphor. It's a true story about one man's personal account of his days as a drug dealer and his few years in federal prison.

I bought the book because I know the author, he's a funny comedian out in Los Angeles. Definitely not PC. Definitely not for children. But a funny and interesting read.

[Christina · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's quite good! Definitely wild but so refreshing from the special snowflakeness and faux edginess of A Million Little Pieces (my last drug novel and one I despised). Johnny Mitchell has a good sense of attitude to him, which I think his editor did wonders preventing it from coming off as irritating as all hell. Nice solid read and pretty different from a lot of books out there.