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Confessions of an International Drug Smuggler
Other Press
May 2009
On Sale: May 5, 2009
386 pages
ISBN: 159051310X
EAN: 9781590513101
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In the early 1980s, Brian O’Dea was operating a $100
million a year, 120-man drug smuggling business, and had
developed a terrifying cocaine addiction. Under increasing
threat from the DEA in 1986 for importing seventy-five tons
of marijuana into the United States, he quit the trade–and
the drugs–and began working with recovering addicts in
Santa Barbara. Despite his life change, the authorities
caught up with him years later and O’Dea was arrested,
tried, and sentenced to ten years at Terminal Island
Federal Penitentiary in Los Angeles Harbor. A born
storyteller, O’Dea candidly recounts his incredible
experiences from the streets of Bogotá with a false-
bottomed suitcase lined with cocaine, to the engine
compartment of an old DC-6 whose engines were failing over
the Caribbean, to the cell blocks overcrowded with small-
time dealers who had fallen victim to the justice system’s
perverse bureaucracy of drug sentencing. Weaving together
extracts from his prison diary with the vivid recounting of
his outlaw years and the dawning recognition of those
things in his life that were worth living for, High tells
the remarkable story of a remarkable man in the late-1980s
drug business and why he walked away.
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