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High: Confessions of an International Drug Smuggler by O'Dea, Brian
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- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Other Press, LLC
ISBN-10
159051310X
ISBN-13
9781590513101
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038777652
Product Key Features
Book Title
High : Confessions of an International Drug Smuggler
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs, General, Criminals & Outlaws, Psychopathology / Addiction, Criminology
Genre
True Crime, Social Science, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14.8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-050764
Reviews
Bookforum "Brian O'Dea tells all: The book includes excerpts from his prison diary, scenes from him work as a drug counselor, and a clear-eyed reckoning of his intoxicated multinational adventures." ForeWordClark Isaacs "…a look into the seamy life of drug smuggling." Kirkus Reviews "Blistering memoir by a once-notorious drug smuggler and addict…an unusually revealing account of a criminal's rise and fall." Philadelphia City paper "Nowadays Brian O'Dea is on the up-and-up, gainfully employed as a film and TV producer in Toronto, but back in the '80s he operated a $100 million-a-year, 120-man trafficking business (the largest marijuana haul in U.S. history), and picked up a nasty cocaine habit along the way." Publishers Weekly "In this wistful but honest look at a life subsumed by drugs, now-reformed smuggler O'Dea (a Canadian film producer) pulls back the curtain on the machinations and motivations of a hugely successful, outrageously addicted 1980s drug trafficker whose redemption came too late to save him from prison...Throughout his life's many ups and downs, however, O'Dea remains a charming, relatable narrator you can't help but root for." Booklist "[High] is refreshingly unapologetic, about as far away from inspirational autobiography as you can get. It's the story of a man who made it big and paid the consequences, told in a straightforward style that contrasts O'Dea's regimented life as a prison inmate with his exciting, risk-driven years as an international criminal. He's a good, writer, too, nicely capturing the atmosphere of his two worlds and their inhabitants. The book is hardly an endorsement of the lifestyle of a drug smuggler, but, as with movies like Scarface, the intoxicating allure of money and power is made perfectly clear.", "A look into the seamy life of drug smuggling." ForeWord Magazine "Brian O'Dea tells all: The book includes excerpts from his prison diary, scenes from him work as a drug counselor, and a clear-eyed reckoning of his intoxicated multinational adventures." BookForum "Blistering memoir by a once-notorious drug smuggler and addict…an unusually revealing account of a criminal's rise and fall. Clarity of voice and extraordinary powers of recollection make this an unusually revealing account of a criminal's rise and fall." Kirkus Reviews "Nowadays Brian O'Dea is on the up-and-up, gainfully employed as a film and TV producer in Toronto, but back in the '80s he operated a $100 million-a-year, 120-man trafficking business (the largest marijuana haul in U.S. history), and picked up a nasty cocaine habit along the way." Philadelphia City Paper "In this wistful but honest look at a life subsumed by drugs, now-reformed smuggler O'Dea (a Canadian film producer) pulls back the curtain on the machinations and motivations of a hugely successful, outrageously addicted 1980s drug trafficker whose redemption came too late to save him from prison...Throughout his life's many ups and downs, however, O'Dea remains a charming, relatable narrator you can't help but root for." Publishers Weekly(Online), NPR's Talk of the Nation "Brian O'Dea tried marijuana in college and saw dollar signs. A born salesman, he began dealing to fellow college students in the early 1970s. By the early 1980s, he had built a $100 million a year smuggling operation, and a cocaine addiction. His narcotics racket took him around the world to places such as Bogota, Columbia and Montego Bay, Jamaica. O'Dea had some successful multimillion dollar deals, but more often than not, rip-offs, double-crosses, getting wasted and waiting characterized the operations. High is Brian O'Dea's memoir of dealing drugs, doing time, and seeking redemption." Bookforum "Brian O'Dea tells all: The book includes excerpts from his prison diary, scenes from him work as a drug counselor, and a clear-eyed reckoning of his intoxicated multinational adventures." ForeWord Clark Isaacs "...a look into the seamy life of drug smuggling." Kirkus Reviews "Blistering memoir by a once-notorious drug smuggler and addict...an unusually revealing account of a criminal's rise and fall." Philadelphia City paper "Nowadays Brian O'Dea is on the up-and-up, gainfully employed as a film and TV producer in Toronto, but back in the '80s he operated a $100 million-a-year, 120-man trafficking business (the largest marijuana haul in U.S. history), and picked up a nasty cocaine habit along the way." Publishers Weekly "In this wistful but honest look at a life subsumed by drugs, now-reformed smuggler O'Dea (a Canadian film producer) pulls back the curtain on the machinations and motivations of a hugely successful, outrageously addicted 1980s drug trafficker whose redemption came too late to save him from prison...Throughout his life's many ups and downs, however, O'Dea remains a charming, relatable narrator you can't help but root for." Booklist "[High] is refreshingly unapologetic, about as far away from inspirational autobiography as you can get. It's the story of a man who made it big and paid the consequences, told in a straightforward style that contrasts O'Dea's regimented life as a prison inmate with his exciting, risk-driven years as an international criminal. He's a good, writer, too, nicely capturing the atmosphere of his two worlds and their inhabitants. The book is hardly an endorsement of the lifestyle of a drug smuggler, but, as with movies like Scarface, the intoxicating allure of money and power is made perfectly clear.", NPR's Talk of the Nation "Brian O'Dea tried marijuana in college and saw dollar signs. A born salesman, he began dealing to fellow college students in the early 1970s. By the early 1980s, he had built a $100 million a year smuggling operation, and a cocaine addiction. His narcotics racket took him around the world to places such as Bogota, Columbia and Montego Bay, Jamaica. O'Dea had some successful multimillion dollar deals, but more often than not, rip-offs, double-crosses, getting wasted and waiting characterized the operations. High is Brian O'Dea's memoir of dealing drugs, doing time, and seeking redemption." Bookforum "Brian O'Dea tells all: The book includes excerpts from his prison diary, scenes from him work as a drug counselor, and a clear-eyed reckoning of his intoxicated multinational adventures." ForeWord Clark Isaacs "…a look into the seamy life of drug smuggling." Kirkus Reviews "Blistering memoir by a once-notorious drug smuggler and addict…an unusually revealing account of a criminal's rise and fall." Philadelphia City paper "Nowadays Brian O'Dea is on the up-and-up, gainfully employed as a film and TV producer in Toronto, but back in the '80s he operated a $100 million-a-year, 120-man trafficking business (the largest marijuana haul in U.S. history), and picked up a nasty cocaine habit along the way." Publishers Weekly "In this wistful but honest look at a life subsumed by drugs, now-reformed smuggler O'Dea (a Canadian film producer) pulls back the curtain on the machinations and motivations of a hugely successful, outrageously addicted 1980s drug trafficker whose redemption came too late to save him from prison...Throughout his life's many ups and downs, however, O'Dea remains a charming, relatable narrator you can't help but root for." Booklist "[High] is refreshingly unapologetic, about as far away from inspirational autobiography as you can get. It's the story of a man who made it big and paid the consequences, told in a straightforward style that contrasts O'Dea's regimented life as a prison inmate with his exciting, risk-driven years as an international criminal. He's a good, writer, too, nicely capturing the atmosphere of his two worlds and their inhabitants. The book is hardly an endorsement of the lifestyle of a drug smuggler, but, as with movies like Scarface, the intoxicating allure of money and power is made perfectly clear."
Dewey Edition
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Dewey Decimal
364.1/3365092 B
Synopsis
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 tradeand the drugsand 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., 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 Bogot 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.
LC Classification Number
HV5805.O34A2 2008
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