- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd; Limited edition edition (15 May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1841958182
- ISBN-13: 978-1841958187
- Product Dimensions: 28.2 x 19 x 9.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,017,107 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book recounts the activities of former cocaine smuggler and dealer, Zachary Swan, chronicling his outstanding scams and successes of the early 1970s and the comings and goings of his various associates, customers, and antagonists. This is a limited edition, only 1000 copies have been made and feature unbelievable production values. The boards of the book are made from reinforced mirrors. Inside the book, the title page is numbered and signed by the collaborators - Damien Hirst, Howard Marks and Robert Sabbag - and there is a metal credit card as a bookmark in the style of an American Express card. Inside the book, a special die-cut trench runs through the pages that feature Zachary Swan's most daring import/export manoeuvers, and inside this trench hides a real $100 bill, rolled up. The final three digits of the note, which were specially secured from the US Treasury, correspond to the number of the edition from the run of one thousand. The edition comes in a special slip case featuring the same artwork as the endpapers: reproduced dollar bills, and all copies are numbered, sealed and protected when bought.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
People should not be reviewing the actual book on this page, which is for the Damien Hirst designed edition of which only 1000 were ever made. This is a limited edition piece which was never meant to be read as it is hollowed out in the middle to keep your "stash" in (whatever that may be!).
I have one of these and they are beautiful. Fully mirrored is the cover (you may imagine why) and it has a handy $100 note inside (real) with a credit card style book mark. An over-the-top accessory for the rich and famous (if you actually use it.) Of course more than likely you would have it on display instead! I have mine open in a glass case and it looks fantastic. A talking point indeed.
I have one of these and they are beautiful. Fully mirrored is the cover (you may imagine why) and it has a handy $100 note inside (real) with a credit card style book mark. An over-the-top accessory for the rich and famous (if you actually use it.) Of course more than likely you would have it on display instead! I have mine open in a glass case and it looks fantastic. A talking point indeed.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having been hooked by an excerpt in a Rebel Inc sampler, I just had to see if the rest of the scams in Snowblind would be as ingenious as the one I'd unwittingly been spiked with. I wanted more.
With every chapter there were more ways to put my mouth where my money had gone, telling friends about the deviousness and downright cheek of the smuggler Zachary Swan, a cunning yet attractive figure, perhaps the only one whose character was in any way developed in the novel. That he really existed seems mere disingenousness on Sabbag's part - the writer has made his protagonist stand up so well that to say he's not real would be to let him down. And of course, it doesn't matter that the various shadowy figures who flit in and out of Swan's life aren't filled in to any great extent. Mere vehicles for Sabbag's plotlines, they're mules in more ways than one.
One of the few books I've actually rung friends to rant down the phone about.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Snowblind has been referred to by many as the drug sellers handbook, but it is simply a lot more than that. It is an excellent account of one man, and his battles to outwit the authorities in his quest for money. Right from the first deal he does you feel you are there with him, through all the airports, all the hotels, and all the anguish and stress felt. At times you can almost feel yourself sweat with nerves, or get high on the self-satisfaction of completing the deal. It doesn't matter if you are into drugs or anti-drugs, this book is simply one of the greatest accounts I have ever read of one man's life.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Damien Hirst Snowblind Ltd Edition
I won this piece in a competition. It is beautiful and I am hoping it will go up in value and put my son through college.
Published on 12 Feb 2008 by B. Gilbert
couldn't get in to it, maybe its not my style
loved mr nice by howard marks and he loved snowblind so i guess i took a wrong turn somewhere
Published on 28 Jun 2000 by masspecguy
tactically inept
Having read this book twice now I still feel that there are simly far to many characters involved for the reader to deal with. Read more
Published on 2 Jun 1999
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