Mr Nice - 21st Anniversary Edition

21ST ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSHHe was Britain's most wanted man. He spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary. You'll like him.During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons of marijuana, and had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA and the Mafia. Following a worldwide operation by the Drug Enforcement Agency, he was arrested and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at the Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana. He was released in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence. Told with humour, charm and candour, Mr Nice is his own extraordinary story.'The story of a remarkable life, lived by the very brilliant and exceptionally wonderful Mr Nice'Irvine Welsh'Frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and often surreal'GQ'A man who makes Peter Pan look like a geriatric'Loaded'A folk legend'Daily Mail

About the author

Howard Marks (1945–2016) wrote the international bestseller Mr Nice, which describes his years as one of the world's most wanted drug barons. It has sold over one million copies worldwide and was adapted into a major film. He also garnered critical and popular acclaim for The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories, Senor Nice and a series of crime novels.Irvine Welsh was born and raised in Edinburgh. His first novel, Trainspotting, has sold over one million copies in the UK and was adapted into an era-defining film. He has written fourteen further novels, including the number one Sunday Times bestseller Dead Men’s Trousers, four books of shorter fiction and numerous plays and screenplays. Irvine Welsh currently lives between London, Edinburgh and Miami.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Marks
• Assisted by: Irvine Welsh (Introduction), Welsh Irvine (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.06.2017
• EAN: 9781784705909
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-590-9
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Howard Marks; Howard Marks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, True Crime, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime, Organized crime, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Drugs trade / drug trafficking, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)