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Smuggler's blues, a true story of the hippie mafia, Richard Stratton

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Smuggler's blues, a true story of the hippie mafia, Richard Stratton

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Smuggler's blues

Oclc number

914219241

Responsibility statement

Richard Stratton

Sub title

a true story of the hippie mafia

Summary

"The unlikeliest of kingpins, Richard Stratton, a clean-cut Wellesley boy who entered outlaw culture on a trip to Mexico, he saw his search for a joint morph into a thrill-filled dope run smuggling two kilos across the border in his car door. He became a member of the Hippie Mafia, traveling the world to keep America high, living the underground life while embracing the hippie credo, rejecting hard drugs in favor of marijuana and hashish. With cameos by Whitey Bulger and Norman Mailer, Smuggler's Blues tells Stratton's adventure while centering on his last years as he travels from New York to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley to source and smuggle high-grade hash in the midst of civil war, from the Caribbean to the backwoods of Maine, and from the Chelsea Hotel to the Plaza as his fortunes rise and fall, while he is being pursued by his nemesis, a philosophical DEA agent who respects him for his good business practices"--, Provided by publisher

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