Saltwater Cowboy : the rise and fall of a marijuana empire
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Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, [2015].
ISBN
9781250051288, 1250051282
Status
Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
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Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, [2015].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781250051288, 1250051282
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Description
"In 1979, Wisconsin native Tim McBride hopped into his Mustang and headed south. He was twenty-one, and his best friend had offered him a job working as a crab fisherman in Chokoloskee Island, a town of fewer than 500 people on Florida's Gulf Coast. Easy of disposition and eager to experience life at its richest, McBride jumped in with both feet. But this wasn't a typical fishing outfit. McBride had been unwittingly recruited into a band of smugglers--middlemen between a Colombian marijuana cartel and their distributors in Miami. His elaborate team comprised fishermen, drivers, stock houses, security--seemingly all of Chokoloskee Island was in on the operation. As McBride came to accept his new role, tons upon tons of marijuana would pass through his hands. Then the federal government intervened in 1984, leaving the crew without a boss and most of its key players. McBride, now a veteran smuggler, was somehow spared. So when the Colombians came looking for a new middle-man, they turned to him. McBride became the boss of an operation that was ultimately responsible for smuggling 30 million pounds of marijuana. A self-proclaimed "Saltwater Cowboy," he would evade the Coast Guard for years, facing volatile Colombian drug lords and risking betrayal by romantic partners until his luck finally ran out. A tale of crime and excess, Saltwater Cowboy is the gripping memoir of one of the biggest pot smugglers in American history"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
McBride, T., & Berrier, R. (2015). Saltwater Cowboy: the rise and fall of a marijuana empire (First edition.). St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McBride, Tim, 1958, January 26- and Ralph. Berrier. 2015. Saltwater Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire. St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McBride, Tim, 1958, January 26- and Ralph. Berrier. Saltwater Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire St. Martin's Press, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)McBride, Tim, and Ralph Berrier. Saltwater Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire First edition., St. Martin's Press, 2015.
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