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Senor Nice: Straight Life from Wales to South America (Hardcover)

by Howard Marks (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Harvill Secker (5 Oct 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0436210150
  • ISBN-13: 978-0436210150
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.4 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 314,325 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Howard Marks was released from Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana in April 1995 after serving seven years of a twenty-five year sentence for marijuana smuggling. It was time for a change of career. So he wrote two best-selling books, became a sports writer and travel writer, stood as a parliamentary candidate in Norwich North, Norwich South, Southampton Test and Neath, applied to become the country's Drug Czar, and embarked on a long-running sell-out series of one man shows. While performing in his home town of Kenfig Hill, he fell among old friends who made extraordinary claims for Welsh culture (Was Elvis really Welsh? Was there really a tribe of Welsh-speaking Native Americans?) At the same time his elderly aunt told him of his outlaw ancestry: William Owen, the legendary Welsh smuggler (who had operated for some time in South America) and his great-great-grandfather Patrick McCarty, the half brother of Billy the Kid, who had joined Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in Patagonia. He decided to explore South America. His travels took him to Jamaica and Panama in the footsteps of the Welsh buccaneer Henry Morgan; he went to Brazil looking for groups of Welsh settlers so obscure he never found them (although he did succeed in finding his musical idol Jimmy Page); and he searched among the thriving Welsh community in Patagonia for signs of Billy the Kid's half brother. Richly comic and charged with the sense of adventure that would induce an Oxord graduate to become the world's most notorious marijuana smuggler, "Senor Nice" is the hugely entertaining sequel to "Mr Nice".

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3.0 out of 5 stars Can never live up to Mr Nice, 14 Nov 2006
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I was given this book as a present as soon as i had read Mr Nice and had high expectations. However now i have read this book i cant help but feel dissappointed. In a way this was inevitable - after such a chaotic life as an illegal drug dealer, life post prison is quieter. This creates problems as he just doesn't have the material to write an interesting book and although i like the way he writes, he stuggles to bring this stuff to life. Ive read it on the train as a way to fill time, but would not recommend this for avid Mr Nice readers.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as Mr. Nice, 9 May 2007
This book is no way as good as Mr. Nice; it is more a story of Howard trying to find the roots of his family. He goes to different countries researching his family tree. There are no stories of drug deals or false passports, only one for the hardcore fan or people interested in Welsh history!
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4.0 out of 5 stars A different but good kettle of fish, 5 Aug 2007
By D. Miu "Dinah C Miu" (Timbuktoo) - See all my reviews
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If you are going to read this book you must go into it realising that it is not a follow on to Mr Nice as such. At first I was sceptical that I would enjoy the tale of Howard searching for Welsh roots and his family tree around the world, but it develops into someone trying to find their identity after a period in prison. It is interesting because you can't help but get sucked in by his charming, engaging story telling style, the people who he randomly hooks up with and the interesting yet bizzare snippets of historical information he gives us. (Eg, Welsh colonies in South America and Bob Marley and Elvis having Welsh heritage etc). Despite not smuggling any more he does lead an interesting and unusual existance that is worth reading about.
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