- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Mainstream Publishing (3 April 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1845963105
- ISBN-13: 978-1845963101
- Product Dimensions: 1.9 x 15.2 x 22.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 286,471 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The inside story of Britain's biggest-ever cocaine-smuggling syndicate
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Urban Smuggler chronicles the rollicking life story of one of the most prolific smugglers of our time. After leaving school at 14, Andrew Pritchard started out selling weed at house parties before moving on to run some of the biggest warehouse raves of the acid-house era. The money began to roll in, but with it came trouble, and when someone was murdered at one of his parties he was forced to go on the run to Jamaica.
It was there that Pritchard learned the tricks of the smuggling trade, and with corrupt UK Customs officers in his pocket it seemed that nothing could go wrong. But then someone in his network used his supply chain to start shifting industrial amounts of cocaine. When he went to meet a shipment of counterfeit cigars, he was seized by a Customs task force and arrested when the goods turned out to be half a ton of premium-grade cocaine. Following two controversial trials, Pritchard was acquitted after eighteen months on remand.
In Urban Smuggler, he reveals just how easy it can be to import shiploads of contraband into the UK and exposes the corruption within the law-enforcement agencies tasked to tackle this kind of crime. Here, then, is the inside story of how to become an 'urban smuggler'.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you are now in your 30s or 40s then you need this book to remind yourself what you got up in your party years of the 80s and 90s.
If you are in your teens or 20s then read what you missed out on - it will never be repeated.
Urban Smuggler gets right to the core of the underground drug culture that gave rise to and fuelled the dance scene, a hands-on tale of one man riding the 'rave wave' and cashing in on the seemingly chaotic and spontaneous world that grew around him.
Inevitably it could never last forever but you will be shocked, appalled, and amazed by just what followed. What a great book and I hear there's a film on the way too. Enjoy.
If you are in your teens or 20s then read what you missed out on - it will never be repeated.
Urban Smuggler gets right to the core of the underground drug culture that gave rise to and fuelled the dance scene, a hands-on tale of one man riding the 'rave wave' and cashing in on the seemingly chaotic and spontaneous world that grew around him.
Inevitably it could never last forever but you will be shocked, appalled, and amazed by just what followed. What a great book and I hear there's a film on the way too. Enjoy.
7 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book under thr TRUE CRIME listing, and will no longer purcahse any further from this publisher, this is complete rubbish.Apparently whilst doing raves and being protected by ex SAS men who were later chased off by some London Greek Mafia, then been raided by the Special Patrol Group who incedently had been already been disbanded by that time, then dating supermodels he is pictured with his
long term girlfriend hmmm rather large, then deals and wins against various elite police and customs units, I failed to get to the point where Sir Alex wanted him to play centre forward for him or where he gave Mike Tyson a slap as the book was in the dustbin by that time.
long term girlfriend hmmm rather large, then deals and wins against various elite police and customs units, I failed to get to the point where Sir Alex wanted him to play centre forward for him or where he gave Mike Tyson a slap as the book was in the dustbin by that time.
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Modern Day British Urban Smuggler!!!!!
14 Sep 2008
Format:Paperback
Brilliantly written!! Revealing the life and times of a British/Jamaican born urban smuggler. An inspiring true story as told by the author depicting the highly enterprising and successful smuggling tactics of a young man growing up in London and the West Indies. Giving the reader an inside view at a smoothly operated business on the rise.......British Gangsta Style!!!! With a real live twist of corruption at its best within "Her Majestry's Custom Services"........A Must Read!!!!!!!
Gu deh Andrew!!!
Reviewed exclusively by J. Kong & Y. Kong-Eusebe
Gu deh Andrew!!!
Reviewed exclusively by J. Kong & Y. Kong-Eusebe
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