Mr Nice: The Incredible Story of an Unconventional Life Audiobook (Free)
- Howard Marks
- Random House UK
- 2007-11-29
Summary:
2017 is the 21st anniversary of Howard Marks’ vintage bestselling autobiography.
He was Britain’s most wanted man. He spent seven years in America’s toughest penitentiary. You’ll like him.
Through the mid 1980s Howard Signifies got forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies across the world.
In the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons of weed, and had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA and the Mafia. Carrying out a worldwide operation from the Drug Enforcement Company, he was arrested and sentenced to twenty-five years in jail on the Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana. He premiered in April 1995 after providing seven many years of his sentence.
Informed with humour, appeal and candour, Mr Great is his own extraordinary story.
‘The story of a remarkable life, lived by the brilliant and exceptionally wonderful Mr Great’
Irvine Welsh
‘Frequently hilarious, sometimes sad, and frequently surreal’
GQ
‘A man who makes Peter Pan look like a geriatric’
Loaded
‘A folk story’
Daily Mail