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Saltwater Cowboy

Name: Saltwater Cowboy
ISBN: 9781466882386

The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire

Tim McBride,

Ralph Berrier,

271 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Saltwater Cowboy

The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire

Tim McBride,

Ralph Berrier,

About this book

"A wild and entertaining true story by one of the biggest pot haulers in American history . . . Tim McBride's tale of excess is a thrill to read." —Bruce Porter, New York Times–bestselling author of Blow
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.

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