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Smokescreen: A True Adventure

Smokescreen: A True Adventure

by Robert Sabbag (Author), Allen Long (Collaborator)

  • Used

    Hardcover 2002

    $4.73

  • Used

    Paperback 2002

    $3.49
Synopsis

'Do you think you have the balls it would take to risk your life for a million dollars?' Allen Long certainly did. Balls like a bull elephant's - with charisma and cunning in the same large measure. But he needed to know that those around him could handle pressure. After all, they'd be violating Colombian and US airspace in a dilapidated DC-3 and landing on jungle mud tracks in bandit country. They'd have to avoid detection by America's most tooled-up law enforcement agencies and remain wired and vigilant at all times. From the writer of the drug smuggling classic Snowblind, comes a true story more hair-raising, high-octane and heart-pounding than any fictional adventure thriller. Take a seat. And hang on for the ride of your life.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 341
 Edition: 1st
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 02 Feb 2002
ISBN 10: 184195232X
ISBN 13: 9781841952321
Book Overview: Witness Protection , based on Robert Sabbag's New York Times Magazine cover story was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture.

Media Reviews
Described as 'A True Adventure', this is one of the most amazing stories about drugs and their shipment that I have ever read in either fiction or non fiction (this is, in fact, the latter). It starts off with Allen Long and others in a DC3 flying in to Colombia to pick up a huge cache of marijuana. They are warned not to land - rain has turned the primitive runway into a sea of mud - but they do. After loading the plane they crash through trees and have to land. The book is a series of incredible tales of success and failure with a somewhat grim epilogue which tells what happened to the main characters. I gather Canongate outbid other major publishers for this title, and it is a truly remarkable tale - indeed it makes a cracking read.
Author Bio
Robert Sabbag is the best-selling author of the drug smuggling classics Snowblind and Smokescreen, and the definitive book on the U.S. Marshals, Too Tough to Die. His journalism appears in numerous magazines, among them Rolling Stone, to which he is a regular contributor. Witness Protection, based on his New York Times Magazine cover story, The Invisible Family , was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture.