Mr. Nice

by Howard Marks

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An excellent excellent book. Despite him being on the wrong side of the law, I could help help admiring Howard Marks's ability to get on with life. to the max. I wish I could be more like him. (ps I loved the poem written by his daughter on p456 about the pain of missing a loved one.) (

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jvgravy | Jan 29, 2011 |

totally engrossing - one of the first and only books i have recommended to my partner that she really enjoyed too. there is no way to explain this or review this book other than read it yourtself - it will blow you away.
casual referneces to pink floyd a nice little touch. (

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scuzzy | Jul 6, 2010 |

yes, he does come across as nice but then he did write it!
I found it an ok read (but then again, I read it while stuck in a Blackpool hotel with my mother for a week and would have read cereal packets to pass the time) (

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petulant_seraph | Feb 12, 2007 |

Ubiquitous on airport bookshop shelves and car boot sales, this was another 20p purchase. Grasshopping Howard Marks does seem genuinely nice. He rises and falls, sells and invests, dodges and dives does porridge and Monte Carlo but by about two thirds of the way through his life becomes awful repetitious. (

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The War on Drugs ( [1971])

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During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealing. Marks began to deal small amounts of hashish while doing a postgraduate philosophy course at Oxford, but soon he was moving much larger quantities. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to fifty tons from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada and had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA and the Mafia. Mr Nice is Howard Mark's extraordinary story.… (more)

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