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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 OβDea 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 tradeβand the drugsβand began working with recovering addicts in Santa Barbara. Despite his life change, the authorities caught up with him years later and OβDea was arrested, tried, and sentenced to ten years at Terminal Island Federal Penitentiary in Los Angeles Harbor. A born storyteller, OβDea candidly recounts his incredible experiences from the streets of BogotΓ‘ 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 systemβs 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.
 Media BuzzTalk of the Nation - May 28, 2009
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