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Indlæser... Jackpot: High Times, High Seas, and the Sting That Launched the War on Drugsaf Jason Ryan
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. I must admit as a South Carolinian, I am somewhat prejudiced in my review as I recognize the coastal areas mentioned in SC, but this book is a top 3 lifetime! I do not buy many books, but I will buy this one to read again. ( ) Poorly written, the guy was all over the place! One minute we're talking about a run in 1976 and then he's discussing the details of one in '75, no chronology at all. The story simply focused on two guys rather than taking the opportunity to discuss the drug smuggling culture of the time and region. Sure he mentions that it's going on a lot, but never gives any details. Reportedly the investigation that launched the task-force concept, Operation Jackpot targeted the “gentlemen smugglers” of South Carolina in the 1970s and 1980s. They avoided violence, weapons and cocaine (except for heavy personal use) but were a loose band of modern pirates responsible for bringing massive amounts of pot and some hash into the U.S. by sea. They traveled the world and spent money on boats, cars, drugs, real estate, and women. A politically ambitious U.S. Attorney and an intrepid group of investigators prosecuted scores of smugglers and supporters and brought the good life to an end. “Jackpot” brings the story to life thirty years later. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a cadre of freewheeling, Southern pot smugglers lived at the crossroads of Miami Vice and a Jimmy Buffett song. In less than a decade, these irrepressible adventurers unloaded nearly a billion dollars worth of marijuana and hashish through the eastern seaboard’s marshes. Then came their undoing: Operation Jackpot, one of the largest drug investigations ever launched and an opening volley in Ronald Reagan’s War on Drugs. In Jackpot, author Jason Ryan takes us back to the heady days before drug smuggling was synonymous with deadly gunplay. During this golden age of marijuana trafficking, the country’s most prominent kingpins were a group of wayward and fun-loving Southern gentlemen who forsook college educations to sail drug-laden luxury sailboats across the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Caribbean. Les Riley, Barry Foy, and their comrades eschewed violence as much as they loved pleasure, and it was greed, lust, and disaster at sea that ultimately caught up with them, along with the law. In a cat-and-mouse game played out in exotic locations across the globe, the smugglers sailed through hurricanes, broke out of jail and survived encounters with armed militants in Colombia, Grenada and Lebanon. Based on years of research and interviews with imprisoned and recently released smugglers and the law enforcement agents who tracked them down, Jackpot does for marijuana smuggling what Blow and Snowblind did for the cocaine trade. No library descriptions found. |
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