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Original Title:	Mr. Nice. An Autobiography
ISBN:	1841953199 (ISBN13: 9781841953199)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.howardmarks.name/

Mr. Nice

Howard Marks

Paperback | Pages: 560 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 7652 Users | 285 Reviews

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Title	:	Mr. Nice
Author	:	Howard Marks
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 560 pages
Published	:	August 1st 2003 by Canongate UK (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Mystery. Crime

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During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and owned 25 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 50 tons from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada and had contact with organizations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA, and the Mafia. This is his extraordinary story.

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Ratings: 3.88 From 7652 Users | 285 Reviews

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Generally speaking I'm not a fan of non-fiction, preferring fictional works designed to provoke thought, debate and emotion. Saying that, I did enjoy Mr Nice; perhaps because Howard Marks' is so interesting it almost read like a fictional account. It was a very easy book to read and I found myself getting through big chunks at a time (perhaps not as fast as I'd have liked due to being super busy recently). There's a great cast of characters and I enjoyed Marks' tone of voice, particularly the

This is a tale of two books for me. The first half (and it's long, so it's quite the half) was very interesting, learning about how this guy set up his empire, all the wheeling and dealing, etc etc. I also enjoyed how he and I ended up at many of the same places (Palma, Patapong, etc), which might say a lot about me, hahaha. So, that was all well and good.It goes off the rails in the latter half, though, when he gets busted for smuggling. He gets so whiny and upset (calls the DEA evil and says

Cracking good story, well told.

This was one of those "cool" books that I avoided like the plague but with the death of Marks and the cheap price on Amazon I gave it a go. Only 20 years later.Here is Mark's synopsis of his life:'...leave Wales, go to Oxford, get a degree in nuclear physics, become the world's biggest pot smuggler, spend nine years in the nick, write a bestseller, and finally get up on the stage to crack some jokes. It all just happened. I had no control.'It is not easy keeping up with the scams and the world

How does a normal guy becomes an international marijuana dealer, a member of the M16, CIA, and the mafia with 43 different aliases? If you read the back of this book and chapter one, you think there's really something to this story. Being an educated Oxford man, you'd expect Marks to know how to write a decent story. Wrong. He doesn't write in incomplete sentences or anything like that, but that's about the best I can say about this book. It is a trite, emotionless account of his drug dealings

Proof of the fact that Oxford prepares its students for real life. Howard Marks really had f....g high IQ. Respect.

I read this many years ago and remember being mildly disappointed, as I had high hopes. I'd seen Marks interviewed on TV and read various newspaper articles on him; in all of which he cam across as a charismatic, chancer, with an interesting background. A highly intelligent working class lad from the Welsh Valleys who had won a scholarship to an Oxbridge University who went on to lead one of the World's largest Hash smuggling rings. I was looking forward to reading the book. Unfortunately the