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Chargement... Gringo: My Life on the Edge as an International Fugitivepar Peter Conti, Peter Conti (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. "I was not tempted by pot or any other illegal drugs because, believe it or not, there were none." Gringo: My Life on the Edge as an International Fugitive was sent to me for review through OnlineBookClub. This was honestly my first true crime story. I've been trying to read more nonfiction, and thought this book might be a good way to do so. I couldn't have been more right. I really love the way that this book expresses Dan "Tito" Davis' fear as he travels through South America. He included the absolute terror he had whenever he had to show his fake papers. He also added in the kinds of thoughts that flooded his mind during these incidents. This made the book feel more realistic. Dan Davis also includes a lot of history about meth and White Crosses. As someone who loves to learn, this really satisfied my curiosity. It gave me a better feel for the kind of trouble he was in as a fugitive drug-dealer, and taught me something that I never even realized I wanted to know. There weren't many things that I didn't like about this book, but there were a few things that I feel are important to mention. One of these things is the length of the book. Because it's a fairly short book covering around 30 or so years, a lot of it felt crammed in and rushed. Some of the chapters covered a couple years of his life, so when crazy events happened, they seemingly happened all in a row (though sometimes they actually took years to happen or had years between them). This made some of the events less believable and made me question whether they were actually true or not. Another thing that really bothered me was the ending. I felt that the ending was too abrupt. I invested quite a bit of time into reading this book, only for the ending to leave me wanting a lot more information. It just didn't wrap up the story at all. I also found some grammar issues that were too hard to ignore. Throughout the book, there were a few places where paragraphs were repeated in slightly different manners, as if he rewrote a paragraph during the editing process and then forgot to delete the original. This made me really confused at first, as it took a while to realize that this is what happened. Overall, I really enjoyed this book. I would recommend it to anyone in need of adventure. 2 down on the 2019 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge. Challenge #20 is to read "a book written in Prison." Dan "Tito" Davis wrote a 700 page manuscript while in federal prison on drug charges. Peter Conti took that manuscript, and in close collaboration with Davis turned it into a manageable book, Gringo: My Live on the Edge as an International Fugitive. The book reads as a fascinating travelogue, or even a business how-to (How I earned $50 million a year while studying at UNLV; How I built a luxury, world-famous resort in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela), assuming you don't mind being the fellow traveler of a man on the run from the U.S. Federal Government. Davis's "life on the edge" takes him to Mexico, post Pablo Escobar Medellin, Colombia, Panama's Darien Gap, and finally Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, with side trips to Cuba, Bavaria, Spain, Bali and India. Along the way he meets and marries various beautiful women, always leaving them behind because his life on the run would not be fair to the women (and in a couple of cases, children), or, to be fair, in the last case because he's in handcuffs and then in federal detention. The main lesson I took away from this cautionary tale is that there is no honor among thieves, but the ride was exhilarating. Highly recommended. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Dan "Tito" Davis comes from a town in South Dakota that's so small everyone knows their neighbor's cat's name. But once he got out, he made some noise. While at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, he started manufacturing White Crosses, aka speed, and soon had the Banditos Motorcycle Club distributing ten million pills a week. After serving a nickel, he got into the weed game, but just when he got going, he was set up by a childhood friend. Facing thirty years, Davis slipped into Mexico, not knowing a word of Spanish, which began a thirteen-year odyssey that led him to an underground hideout for a Medell n cartel, through the jungles of the Darien Gap, the middle of Mumbai's madness, and much more. "We've known for quite a while that Peter Conti is able to capture the essence of American culture, especially the streets, dead on. With Gringo, we see that Conti writes equally as well about such diverse locals as a post-Escobar Medell n, the jungles of the Darien Gap, and the swarm of humanity in Mumbai. He introduces us to a wide range of characters including a Bandito named Fonzie, a hit woman who moonlights as a tutor, a chemistry nerd, and the heads of some of the most powerful cartels in Latin America. But the most impressive is Conti's portrayal of Dan Davis, the South Dakotan pot trafficker who we follow through these dangerous terrains as he tries to stay one step ahead of the feds and federales." -Michael Corrente, "Federal Hill" and "Brooklyn Rules" "Peter Conti's writing is crisp, sharp, and has a sting. There's an underlying sense of danger throughout this book. He writes as if his fingers are bullets." -Buddy Giovinazzo, "Life is Always Hot in Cracktown" "From millions of dollars lost, just as quickly as gained, to repeating the third grade. . .at age forty, Dan 'Tito' Davis has lived three or four lifetimes. Peter Conti does a masterful job of weaving Davis's colorful life into a provocative page turner." -Christopher Grant, "Teenie" and "False Start" "Peter Conti has written a compelling page-turner about a man on the run and out of time that takes the reader inside the dark demimonde of drug trafficking. You won't be able to put it down." -Frank Owen, "Clubland" and "No Speed Limit" "Peter Conti has created a gripping tale of larceny like no other. Gringo is an enthralling look inside the drug trade and life on the run against all odds. You can literally smell the inherent sense of fear and danger jumping of the pages. A must read." -Dante Ross, Grammy-winning producer "When it's done well, story-telling is an art that can shift our perspective allow us to walk through another man's reality. In this case we experience the highs and lows of a cunning marijuana trafficker and international fugitive. As a story, Gringo has it all. The fascinating life of Dan 'Tito' Davis is masterfully detailed by Peter Conti in a book that you will not be able to put down." -Slaine, "La Coka Nostra" and "The Town" "Sharp and insightful, Conti takes us inside the ultimate fugitive story. You know characters like these exist in the world, but rarely do you get to travel the globe with them." -Rob Weiss, "Entourage" and "Ballers" Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Barring the few omissions, some unnecessarily detailed events, unqualified comments on societies and cultures, and the sudden ending, I much enjoyed this ride and would rate it a 3.5 stars. ( )