- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (28 Jun 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340899336
- ISBN-13: 978-0340899335
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 814,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Reefer Men: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Drug Ring
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
Praise for Tony Thompson:
'Fascinating' Observer
'Detailed and thoroughly riveting' Herald
'Thompson goes down the mean streets so we don't have to' Word (Reviews ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
'Fascinating' Observer
'Detailed and thoroughly riveting' Herald
'Thompson goes down the mean streets so we don't have to' Word (Reviews ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Product Description
This is the story of an international group of drug smugglers, their criminal success and the hunt to bring them to justice.
There were sixteen of them, from America, Britain, Australia and Thailand, and together they were called 'The Ring'. They first began exporting marijuana in the aftermath of the Vietnam war, and over the years they smuggled vast shipments into the USA and Europe, becoming multi-millionaires in the process.
In 1988, they decided to carry out one final heist that would ensure they could retire forever. However, they were intercepted by the police, and the key Ring members all had to flee to avoid being arrested. With unlimited money at their disposal and contacts in all parts of the globe, they were the ultimate fugitives. Tracking them down would call for a fifteen-year international manhunt.
Tony Thompson describes their rise, fall and eventual capture in a thrilling, fast-paced true crime adventure.
There were sixteen of them, from America, Britain, Australia and Thailand, and together they were called 'The Ring'. They first began exporting marijuana in the aftermath of the Vietnam war, and over the years they smuggled vast shipments into the USA and Europe, becoming multi-millionaires in the process.
In 1988, they decided to carry out one final heist that would ensure they could retire forever. However, they were intercepted by the police, and the key Ring members all had to flee to avoid being arrested. With unlimited money at their disposal and contacts in all parts of the globe, they were the ultimate fugitives. Tracking them down would call for a fifteen-year international manhunt.
Tony Thompson describes their rise, fall and eventual capture in a thrilling, fast-paced true crime adventure.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I enjoyed this book immensly. It probably wasn't all true, and yes it probably did make drug smuggling seem both easy and exciting, but we are not idiots, we know its wrong and we're not going to suddenly give it a go. It's hardly a how-to guide.
If you are interested in reading about the underworld and the goings on of a group of people who's had interesting, if not slightly hyped up lives, then this is a great read.
I followed this up with reading Gang Land, another great read by Tony Thompson!
If you are interested in reading about the underworld and the goings on of a group of people who's had interesting, if not slightly hyped up lives, then this is a great read.
I followed this up with reading Gang Land, another great read by Tony Thompson!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
A good story, tracing the fortunes of a disparate group of US traffickers. Not as entertaining as 'Mr Nice' by Howard Marks, but interesting, and the sums of money made (and largely kept) by these rogues is amazing.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is not a "good" book for pot sympathizers. It's about a big pot smuggling "ring" operating from mid-1970'ies to late 1980'ies. The angle is how successfully the evil pot smugglers were "brought to justice" (the author seems obsessed with the expression, never questioning any of the forms of "justice"). And about how sad it was that DEA agents were caught out as personally corrupt, and caught corrupting the cases to catch smugglers on false and bent charges.
What a pot buff can glean from this book is how a lot of pot was shipped worldwide 30 years ago. But the results are given, as we already know the pot got here - to the markets, i.e. people eager for mostly harmless fun. It still does. E.g. some 80-100.000 metric tons raw pot annually out of Morocco, amounting to only est. 60-70 % of EUropean hashish markets, which again is only est. half the EU cannabis market (EMCDDA-numbers). Despite the scale of the smuggling, the pot plots in the book were a small part of that. Though the ring's hauls and busts did influence US West Coast prices.
Written like a trad crime story tracking down perpetrators, the author misses the point about pot-use being part of an ideological struggle of materialism vs. "easy living".
If you "must have" this book, for some unfathomable reason, you can have mine. Read e.g. Howard Marks instead, learn more.
What a pot buff can glean from this book is how a lot of pot was shipped worldwide 30 years ago. But the results are given, as we already know the pot got here - to the markets, i.e. people eager for mostly harmless fun. It still does. E.g. some 80-100.000 metric tons raw pot annually out of Morocco, amounting to only est. 60-70 % of EUropean hashish markets, which again is only est. half the EU cannabis market (EMCDDA-numbers). Despite the scale of the smuggling, the pot plots in the book were a small part of that. Though the ring's hauls and busts did influence US West Coast prices.
Written like a trad crime story tracking down perpetrators, the author misses the point about pot-use being part of an ideological struggle of materialism vs. "easy living".
If you "must have" this book, for some unfathomable reason, you can have mine. Read e.g. Howard Marks instead, learn more.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
