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Chargement... High: Confessions of an International Drug Smuggler (édition 2009)par Brian O'Dea (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. http://educationanddeconstruction.com/2016/06/high/ This memoir by Brian O'Dea, Canadian pot smuggler, alternates betwen his expolits in the 70s and 80s and his prison time in the 90s at Terminal Island prison in Los Angeles. The thrills and wealth are counterbalanced by the descriiptions of heartache and trouble O'Dea caused his family, and himself. He writes objectively and skillfully about his experiences - including his turn as a born-again christian and drug counselor. Told in alternating locations and times, High is the very personal story of Brian O'Dea, who was the son of a somewhat prominent family in Newfoundland who eventually became a very high-rolling international drug smuggler. It took the DEA a long time, but finally O'Dea was arrested and put into prison at Terminal Island near Long Beach, California. His story is one of many highs (literally) and then the lows of hitting bottom, losing everything, and then being put into the US Federal Prison system, where for many, hope is nonexistent. High is funny at times, while being serious all of the time. O'Dea's writing style is real, giving his readers small punctuated glimpses into the drug trade, prison life, and the reality of often overblown sentencing laws for first-time drug offenders. He never shies away from admitting his mistakes, and gets a bit introspective at times while trying to just hang on and make it through another day. It also highlights the often absurd points about the US war on drugs, especially on the part of officials in other countries who supposedly have a stake in combatting the trafficking of illegal substances. The only thing I didn't really like about this book was that it seemed too condensed -- I know there's more that's not being told. The book is well written, and didn't come across as a "poor pitiful me" kind of story which it easily could have. Au contraire, it is more of a look at a man who screwed up, paid the price, and got himself out of the hole of his former existence. I'd recommend it to people who are interested in personal or inspirational memoirs, or people who are interested in reading about the drug trade. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In the early 1980s, Brian O’Dea was operating a $100 million a year, 120-man drug smuggling business, and had developed a terrifying cocaine addiction. Under increasing threat from the DEA in 1986 for importing seventy-five tons of marijuana into the United States, he quit the trade–and the drugs–and began working with recovering addicts in Santa Barbara. Despite his life change, the authorities caught up with him years later and O’Dea was arrested, tried, and sentenced to ten years at Terminal Island Federal Penitentiary in Los Angeles Harbor. A born storyteller, O’Dea candidly recounts his incredible experiences from the streets of Bogotá with a false-bottomed suitcase lined with cocaine, to the engine compartment of an old DC-6 whose engines were failing over the Caribbean, to the cell blocks overcrowded with small-time dealers who had fallen victim to the justice system’s perverse bureaucracy of drug sentencing. Weaving together extracts from his prison diary with the vivid recounting of his outlaw years and the dawning recognition of those things in his life that were worth living for, High tells the remarkable story of a remarkable man in the late-1980s drug business and why he walked away. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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