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Right then, he we go. Book #2 of my Howard Marks series.
If you aren't aware of Marks, read up my previous post.
https://torrentgalaxy.to/torrent/15890585/Mr-Nice--The-Incredible-Story-of-an-Unconventional-Life
Before his smuggling career went to sh*t (courtesy of the DEA), Marks was riding high smuggling tons of marijuana worldwide. He'd just told a fantastic tale about working undercover as a spy, and the story was plainly so convincing, the jury believed him.
This book was written about him by the distinguished David Leigh. A well-respected investigative journalist. His stock-in-trade is largely government corruption, cover-ups, and so on.
Written with the (likely against his lawyers advice) help of Howard Marks. This book was written almost two decades before Mark's own autobiography. I got it in a second hand book shop a long time ago.
Well out of print, as usual I scanned it, ImageMagick to clean up the images, beautify them before they were fed into Tesseract, next I wrote me some Python to format the text properly for an e-reader, I tidied as many spelling mistakes as I could be bothered to, and I joined up all the hyphenated words, then I fired up Libre Office and actually went to the trouble of formatting the text properly into chapters, with headings and all. And I bothered to actually make a table of contents.
There you go, from a yellowed, fit for the bin paperback, into a nice, shiny e-book. All grown up and proper. Still plenty of punctuation errors, but I don't get paid to do this. It is more than good enough to read.
This is an exclusive, people. Available only here on the mighty TGx.
Here is the limited Amazon sales blurb...........
Hardback book dealing with the criminal career of Howard Marks. He was involved in smuggling large amounts of marijuana, and was also involved with British Intelligence. Marks later wrote his own autobiography, ''Mr Nice''.
That's it. That's how much they care about selling this book.
Author:
David Leigh is an award-winning British journalist and author living and working out of Miami. He is a member of the UK Crime Writers Association. Before moving to Florida to work as Senior News Director for a celebrated news and photographic agency, Leigh worked for British newspapers, including the Daily Mirror, where during his 12-year tenure he worked as a Senior Reporter, News Editor and Foreign Editor covering news stories across the world. He then spent three years as Assistant Editor (Head of News) at the Daily Express, where he oversaw coverage of stories including the 9/11 terrorist atrocities, the Second Gulf War, and the fall of Saddam Hussein. His latest book, The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe is the inspiration for an upcoming four-part ITV dramatisation by acclaimed screen writer Chris Lang (Unforgotten/Innocent).
If you aren't aware of Marks, read up my previous post.
https://torrentgalaxy.to/torrent/15890585/Mr-Nice--The-Incredible-Story-of-an-Unconventional-Life
Before his smuggling career went to sh*t (courtesy of the DEA), Marks was riding high smuggling tons of marijuana worldwide. He'd just told a fantastic tale about working undercover as a spy, and the story was plainly so convincing, the jury believed him.
This book was written about him by the distinguished David Leigh. A well-respected investigative journalist. His stock-in-trade is largely government corruption, cover-ups, and so on.
Written with the (likely against his lawyers advice) help of Howard Marks. This book was written almost two decades before Mark's own autobiography. I got it in a second hand book shop a long time ago.
Well out of print, as usual I scanned it, ImageMagick to clean up the images, beautify them before they were fed into Tesseract, next I wrote me some Python to format the text properly for an e-reader, I tidied as many spelling mistakes as I could be bothered to, and I joined up all the hyphenated words, then I fired up Libre Office and actually went to the trouble of formatting the text properly into chapters, with headings and all. And I bothered to actually make a table of contents.
There you go, from a yellowed, fit for the bin paperback, into a nice, shiny e-book. All grown up and proper. Still plenty of punctuation errors, but I don't get paid to do this. It is more than good enough to read.
This is an exclusive, people. Available only here on the mighty TGx.
Here is the limited Amazon sales blurb...........
Hardback book dealing with the criminal career of Howard Marks. He was involved in smuggling large amounts of marijuana, and was also involved with British Intelligence. Marks later wrote his own autobiography, ''Mr Nice''.
That's it. That's how much they care about selling this book.
Author:
David Leigh is an award-winning British journalist and author living and working out of Miami. He is a member of the UK Crime Writers Association. Before moving to Florida to work as Senior News Director for a celebrated news and photographic agency, Leigh worked for British newspapers, including the Daily Mirror, where during his 12-year tenure he worked as a Senior Reporter, News Editor and Foreign Editor covering news stories across the world. He then spent three years as Assistant Editor (Head of News) at the Daily Express, where he oversaw coverage of stories including the 9/11 terrorist atrocities, the Second Gulf War, and the fall of Saddam Hussein. His latest book, The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe is the inspiration for an upcoming four-part ITV dramatisation by acclaimed screen writer Chris Lang (Unforgotten/Innocent).