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St. Martin's Press
April 2015
On Sale: April 7, 2015
ISBN: 1250051282
EAN: 9781250051288
Kindle: B00NKFX3Y2
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In 1979, Wisconsin native Tim McBride hopped into his
Mustang and headed south. He was twenty-one, and his best
friend had offered him a job working as a crab fisherman in
Chokolskee Island, a town of fewer than 500 people on
Florida's Gulf Coast. Easy of disposition and eager to
experience life at its richest, McBride jumped in with both
feet. But this wasn't a typical fishing outfit. McBride had been
unwittingly recruited into a band of smugglers—middlemen
between a Colombian marijuana cartel and their distributors
in Miami. His elaborate team comprised fishermen, drivers,
stock houses, security—seemingly all of Chokoloskee Island
was in on the operation. As McBride came to accept his new
role, tons upon tons of marijuana would pass through his hands. Then the federal government intervened in 1984, leaving the
crew without a boss and most of its key players. McBride,
now a veteran smuggler, was somehow spared. So when the
Colombians came looking for a new middle-man, they turned to
him. McBride became the boss of an operation that was ultimately
responsible for smuggling 30 million pounds of marijuana. A
self-proclaimed "Saltwater Cowboy," he would evade the Coast
Guard for years, facing volatile Colombian drug lords and
risking betrayal by romantic partners until his luck finally
ran out. A tale of crime and excess, Saltwater Cowboy is the gripping
memoir of one of the biggest pot smugglers in American history.
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